The narrator refers to the street of his childhood home as Middlesex Boulevard and to the house as Middlesex. And, of course, there's the natural allusion to his body as being a kind of middle sex. What connections do you think the author intended us to make here?
(There's an awesome description of the house on p. 258).
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Well, this isn't real deep analysis here, but there are some metaphorical parallels between the house and Cal's situation. The house was out-of-place, an anomaly among the more traditional homes in the neighborhood. It took a special person to appreciate its beauty.
I just read that Eugenides really did grow up in a house like that on Middlesex Boulevard in Grosse Pointe.
Wow. That's interesting. I need to read up on him a little. I often found myself wondering how much of this may have come directly from his life.
Quite a bit, from what I've gathered. I just read that the Obscure Object was the nickname he had for a girl in college whom he had a huge crush on.
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