Drinking

Drinking is a common aspect of the characters every day lives. They are almost always drunk. they may be sitting at a bar and they discuss where they are going to go to drink next. The type of drink and the level of drunkenness of each character is often described. Furthermore, each characters drinking level influences the things that they can get away with. For instance, at one point mike is insulting Robert for following Brett around like a puppy and the others make ex cusses for him saying he is "tight" or drunk and can not control what he says. Later we find out that Mike says he really wasn't as drunk as it seemed. Mike is not the only one who makes excuses because he is drunk all the other characters do also. each character has issues and tries to drink away the pain. This is amajor theme through out the book.