Re: The Mezzanine
Robert J. Allen (rja5p@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU)
Wed, 26 Feb 1997 14:07:24 -0500 (EST)
I really like thins book and one thing that I found interesting
about this book is the way that Howie signified his passage into
adulthood. It was not thorugh a major event as in other books I've
read. Hemingway and others would show a boy killing a wild boar and
thus passing into manhood. Howie thinks he became a man the day he
learned to put deodorant on with his clothes on. I think that this
might be saying something about how "civilized" we have become and
how the small things in life are sometimes more important.
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