Class Discussion (2/7) (Meagan Adler)

After today's class discussion, I was particularly intrigued by the idea that the conscious mouse that seeks revenge knows that “from all its efforts at revenge it will suffer a hundred times more than he on whom it revenges itself" (pg.7). Although I cannot completely relate to the narrator, after today's discussion I can better understand the idea of contained anger and how he desires to seek revenge but is incapable of following through; this desire consumes him to a point where he hates himself. I feel as if his spite is derived from the idea that he is so consumed in the details that he cannot act with any sort of direction and see the bigger picture.  I find it intriguing that when we, as a reader, analyze him, we see the internally consuming insecurities which he tries to cover with his condescendingly confident attitude, for in reality “his very self looks on himself as a mouse" even though “no one asks him to do so; and that is an important point" (pg.7).