Answer:
Ultimately, Mike would see that people exist outside the relationship that they have with him
Step-by-step explanation:
The above question is from the book The Moustache by Robert Cormier. Mike (the protagonist of the book) is a persistent fellow who is noble-hearted and independent. Like many teenagers his age, he wants to be his own man and craves independence.
Much of the book is centered on a conversation between Mike and his sick grandmother whom he had gone to visit at the nursing home. His grandmother had mistaken him for her late husband and as the conversation wore on, she would see the frailty and humanity of his grandmother. Ultimately, Mike would see that people exist outside the relationship that they have with him. Besides the fact that she is his grandmother, Mike would come to the daunting reality that she is actually a person (having her own personality).
This is made evident in the book as the thoughts of Mike's heart is captured "My grandmother. My poor, poor grandmother. Old people aren't supposed to have those kinds of memories. You see their pictures in the family albums and that's what they are: pictures. They're not supposed to come to life. You drive out in your father's Le Mans doing seventy-five on the pike and all you're doing is visiting an old lady in a nursing home. A duty call. And then you find out that she's a person. She's somebody. She's my grandmother, all right, but she's also herself. Like my own mother and father. They exist outside of their relationship to me. I was scared again. I wanted to get out of there. "