Ragtime blog post: MYB
Ragtime is a book that follows multiple different storylines. Throughout the book, we get a first-hand glance at how the characters change over time and evolve into their final forms. One specific thing that caught my eye is the transformation of the mother's younger brother throughout the novel. In the beginning, MYB (mother's younger brother) starts off as a timid young man who doesn't really have a purpose. He is mostly reserved and keeps to himself. His first step in his transformation is his discovery of Evelyn Nesbit. She is a model and female celebrity who is mostly famous for her beauty and her rich, crazy ex-husband. As MYB learns more about her, he becomes more and more obsessed with her. He puts her picture on his wall and convinces himself that he is what she needs in her time of desperate need, when her husband is incarcerated for killing her ex-lover. His infatuation leads him to follow her around, which points to his need for meaning and purpose in his life....