“The Mysteries of Pittsburgh” by Michael Chabon (post 5): Novel Ends with Three Major Characters Interpreted as Protagonist’s Alternate Personalities

“…I know that Arthur lies behind the kindly, absent distance I maintain from other people, that behind each sudden, shocking breach of it lies Cleveland; I have from them my vocabulary, my dress, my love of idle talk…[and] as I have found that I may fall quite completely in love with a man—kiss, weep, give gifts—I have also discovered the trace a woman leaves, that Phlox left, and it is better than a man’s” (1, p. 295).

1. Michael Chabon. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh. New York, Harper Perennial, 1988/2005.