Mick's Sociality Analysis

Singer’s Influence on Mick’s Sociality Although Mick violates law in several ways such as smoking underage, shoplifting and trespassing, drawing on the wall can be called a way of her self-expression. Mick feels isolated in her family and in society, but she does not express it and tries to solve it herself. On the other hand, owing to Singer, Mick learns to adapt her circumstance gradually. Singer has a significant influence on Mick’s way to becoming a social adult before and after his suicide. Mick has as many as six siblings, and she is used to being alone more than Jake. The reason why her loneliness is strong in the chapter three is that she is a teenager and is mentally unstable. In general, teenagers want and hate attention
One means is how to draw. This leads to drawing on the wall in the building under construction. With two stubs of chalk, one is green and the other is red, she draws her initials M.K. and PUSSY in addition to famous people’s names, like contemporary art. From one aspect, this act is private because no one is monitoring her. She is comfortable with venting her frustration because anyone will not judge her. It is one of the reasons why she likes music. She can listen to music with no one else around thanks to Singer. Moreover, even if she write music on her own, no one has time to bother her. From another aspect, the act is social because she puts her initials on it. In other words, she has an urge to express her existence. This is also one of the reasons why music comforts her. In the first stage of asserting herself with music, she distinguishes her own thoughts from what she learned from music, such as classic music, by composing. It is important for her because it keeps giving her an idea that she is an individual. In the second stage, she aims to make herself understood by Singer by sharing her composing and her thoughts with him. For her, this is one step to be recognized as an individual, ideally a famous musician, by the
Initially, she did not choose boyish clothes to be rebellious, but this begins to be seen to be somewhat anti-social by the community. As the scene where she climbs up to the top of the tallest building in the city (34) shows, she is active. She could be influenced by her eldest brother Bill because they were good friends when she was little. At first, she must have chosen boyish clothes such as trousers, they are comfortable than female clothes such as skirts. Given that this story is set before the World War Ⅱ, there must have been more unspoken restrictions on what women wear than now. As a result, her sisters, especially Etta, is conscious of fashion and they see Mick’s liking in clothes as her hostility and hate it. Eventually, Mick realizes this norm, yet she does not obey it in the chapter three. However, she quits wearing clothes she likes and starts wearing girlish ones such as a blue skirt and a blouse (215). Her attachment to Singer prompts her to behave like a lady as she knows it. Her deep attachment (312-313) to him is partly a blind belief as the line ‘He had never done wrong and his heart was quiet in the night-time’ indicates. On the contrary to her belief, Singer idealizes his friend Antonapoulos, and hugely relies on him when it comes to his mental problems. She does not know about the relationship between them, and continues to idealize Singer. When she starts working, she has no choice but to transform into a ‘lady’ by