Why Does Updike Use The Character Of Mim

Mim, represents the character that Rabbit cannot be, her talks with Rabbit are fresh, even comic, she is introduced by Updike as a kind of horror, also: Mim is isolated self, has no family, nor she will ever have one. but she has importance in solving the problem of the family. in one of Rabbit's rare visits to his mother, early in the novel when he looks around and meditate," It is like it used to be, except that Mom is in a bathrobe and Mim has become Nelson" (RRe, p. 91). in his memory he and Mim "never fought". Updike in this situation suggests that Rabbit is longing for the mother's-son role he left at home, and for love with Nelson free of the passions of anger and