Will Grayson Will Grayson Week of 4/11/13 *Spoiler Alert*

Prompt: Who are the characters? Describe who they are, what they look like and how

they are connected.

Pages read:  Start-End (about 300 pages)

There are two main characters in this book, Will Grayson and Will Grayson, as the title suggests.  I'll start with my favorite of the two, the one that "wrote" in the capital letters.   He is the less emotional, I guess more relaxed, Will Grayson.  He goes to public high school and has probably 2 friends, Tiny Cooper (who he feels is using him until the end of the book) and Jane (who he ends up dating).  This Will Grayson has a motto for life: Shut up and don't care (which is actually one of my motto's, it was funny to find a fictional character who thinks like that too) and he enforces it in his life, hence me saying the less emotional Will.  This Will Grayson is described by his flamboyant friend Tiny as "cute and too skinny" . He is portrayed in Tiny's musical wearing baggy clothes, old jeans, and normal stuff for straight teenage boys.  To elaborate on this description, he is almost the exact opposite of his friend Tiny, who is flamboyant, intensely emotional, and over 300 pounds.  

The other Will Grayson (who writes in the lower case letters) has a bit more emotion.  He is going through depression and lives with his mother.  He also attends public high school where his only "friend" is Maura, who later is demoted to "enemy" status.  Now both Will Grayson's go through something semi-life changing, but this Will Grayson's was the most dramatic.  In the end, he learns how to be closer to people and how to build relationships with them.  Physically, he has dark hair (or I think he does from his moody demeanor) and is skinny.  He is gay, but not the stereotypical flamboyant kind you would think.  Like the other Will, he isn't in touch with his emotions as much as other people, so he naturally is more relaxed about things.  

Tiny, Jane, and Maura are the secondary character's, but they play a big role in this book.  A subplot in this story is Tiny's musical, which gives meaning to the story.  His musical kind of helps both Will Grayson's through their trouble and sheds light on their problems.  Tiny is one of the Will's big, fat, stereotypically gay friend.  Maura is a goth girl who writes poetry in her "blood".  Jane is a normal teenage, who has a very cool taste in music for which she is very proud of.   All of these character's are believable and interesting, and so I thought this was a good book.