The Effect of Love: Theme of “The Moustache” Robert Cormier’s spectacular story “The Moustache” takes place in Lawnrest Nursing home where elderly people live. Mike, the grandson, visits Meg, his grandmother, because Mike hasn’t visited his grandmother ever since the day she attended Lawnrest. Meg remembered very long ago when Mike was little and never would have expected Mike to come visit. Mike then started feeling like he has butterflies in his stomach when Meg said all the things so intensely. One lesson the story suggests is that when you think your family will forget about you, but in reality they will be there in your heart.
From the very beginning, the sentences and phrases in the story show the grandmothers love. She is knowing love because Mike finally came to visit his grandmother. Cormier explains, “Mike, Mike, I didn’t think you’d come, she said, so happy… I’ve …show more content…
Meg is not to blame because she has arteriosclerosis, which a disease characterized by abnormal thickening and hardening of the arterial walls. So, Meg can’t live at home because of her body and memory loss, and she wanders off and won’t be able to recognize people. Thought she is suffering from arteriosclerosis, she quite remembers Mike. “Sh… Sh… she whispered, placing a finger as long and cold as a candle against my lips. Don’t say anything. I’ve waited so long for this moment. To be here. With you. I wondered what I would say if suddenly you walked in that door like other people have done. I’ve thought and thought about it. And I finally made up my mind- I’d ask you to forgive me. I was too proud to ask before… But I’m not proud anymore, Mike.” Meg keeps thinking about the past and talking about painful memories that she’s asking for forgiveness from Mike in the past. Even though Meg has forgotten people, she has never forgotten about her
From the very beginning, the sentences and phrases in the story show the grandmothers love. She is knowing love because Mike finally came to visit his grandmother. Cormier explains, “Mike, Mike, I didn’t think you’d come, she said, so happy… I’ve …show more content…
Meg is not to blame because she has arteriosclerosis, which a disease characterized by abnormal thickening and hardening of the arterial walls. So, Meg can’t live at home because of her body and memory loss, and she wanders off and won’t be able to recognize people. Thought she is suffering from arteriosclerosis, she quite remembers Mike. “Sh… Sh… she whispered, placing a finger as long and cold as a candle against my lips. Don’t say anything. I’ve waited so long for this moment. To be here. With you. I wondered what I would say if suddenly you walked in that door like other people have done. I’ve thought and thought about it. And I finally made up my mind- I’d ask you to forgive me. I was too proud to ask before… But I’m not proud anymore, Mike.” Meg keeps thinking about the past and talking about painful memories that she’s asking for forgiveness from Mike in the past. Even though Meg has forgotten people, she has never forgotten about her