Discussion: 2/7/14

I found the narrator's depiction of himself as a mouse to be fairly accurate. Mice are consistently perceived as timid and weak creatures that always hide from the rest of the world; the narrator exhibits all of these same characteristics. The narrator seems timid and detached in the sense that he cannot properly communicate with the rest of society. Also, much like the narrator, mice always return to their holes in walls. Once they have been out and about in the real world, they constantly return to their holes. On the topic of revenge, the narrator argues that most men, of which he is not a part, view revenge as a form of justice. Oppositely, the "mouse", which is himself, is one who struggles with his overactive conscious. He is too aware of everything going around him that it becomes problematic. When plotting revenge, the narrator becomes overwhelmed with all that can go wrong, to a point where his worries consume his entire being. In the end, his plans for revenge leave him suffering, while the individual upon whom the revenge was sought is left completely unaffected.