“The Moustache” by Robert Cormier is a interesting story.
When the story opens, we meet the narrator, Mike, who is about to set out for a visit to Lawnrest to see his grandmother. His sister, Annie, is supposed to go with him, but is sick. Mike is being given an inspection by his mother, who is checking out his hair and his relatively new moustache. The narrator tells us he decided to grow a moustache to prove a point that he could, but he’d since grown to like it. His mother says the moustache is costing him money, simply because it makes him look older than his 17 years. Even the movie attendant had charged him the full ticket price for him and his girlfriend, Cindy, at a recent show.
The narrator, Mike, who is named for his grandfather, is about to set off. His mother says, ”Your grandmother probably won’t even recognize you,” but he heads out.
He visits his grandmother, and she mistakes him as her husband, who died a while ago. She said she regretted accusing him of cheating, and has lived with that regret. Mike just plays along with it, not knowing whats going on. In the end, Mike manages to leave, and when he gets back, he shaves his mustache.
The story was short, and I couldn’t really find a meaning to it. Overall, it was pretty interesting and funny that a lot of people mistake Mike as a adult, even though he is only a teen