Awko🌮
Howie, our narrator from The Mezzanine, is a very interesting character with many deep intellectual thoughts. While reading this novel, I personally had multiple instances where I couldn’t relate to Howie, either because he was talking about something that I had never thought about (for example, the greatness of the Panasonic three-wheeled vacuum cleaner), or because I just thought he was straight-up absurd. The idea of imagining myself urinating on someone’s face to help relax while doing my business had never crossed my mind until he talked about it. Even so, I think Howie can still be a very relatable character. One aspect of Howie that I could relate to was his awkward interactions with other people, as Baker exaggerates these small moments of uncertainty and overthinking that can occur in our everyday lives. One of the most relatable awkward moments Howie shares is his experience passing Bob Leary on the escalator. He describes the different things he does during their few seconds...