Howie is an Artist
The Mezzanine follows a protagonist Howie who views everything, on a different level kind of like a painter. Especially with regard to his tendency to overanalyze everything in the world around him. It is said that Howie's mind is a whirlwind of ideas, perceptions, and recollections all together. Although it appears from the outside that he is doing something typical, Nicoholson Baker gathers all of Howie's ideas and turns them into a narrative. Howie's obsession with the smallest things you overlook in your "everyday" life is similar to that of a painter who is always perceptive. Howie's mind is the most evident in the way that he fixates on small objects and small details that most adults would overlook. He give everything a bigger picture and finds a meaning behind it, Baker is remarkable at making his thoughts deeply introspective. Ranting about the designs of a stapler, textures of a straw, and these thing would trigger beautifully de...