The short story “ The Moustache,” by Robert Cormier, involves an young man by the name of Mike. When he goes to visit his grandmother, who is in a nursing home, she mistakes him for her husband. Her husband was also named Mike. He learns that adulthood has more to it than it seems. This story teaches that you should enjoy your youth. The vivid details show how much Mike’s grandmother remembers and how the bad memories are damaging her internally. In the scene “,I wanted to say, ‘Nana, it’s me’, but I didn’t.” This quote shows that he wants to tell her it is her grandson, not her husband. Then it is like he realizes that his grandmother has switched roles with him, and he is now comforting her. It can be seen as now he is the adult and his grandmother is like the child. Also, he learns why so many people want to relive their youth. …show more content…
The writing structure represents this change. Like in the following quote “,On the southwest turnpike I did seventy five- no eighty- most of the way. I turned up the radio as loud as it could go. Rock music- anything to fill the air. When I got home my mother was vacuuming the living room rug. She shut off the cleaner and the silence was deafening.” The less structure and quicker pace show more immaturity. With the less composed sentence structure, it is as if his thoughts are not fully composed and just fragments of ideas swirling