'Moon Palace': Central Park som vildmark

The moon palace is a short story in which Paul Auster, the author writes about a homeless man’s experiences in central park, where he seeks shelter from the busy life of the streets, and how he uses the park as a way to find solitude and calmness, just as other people use the American wilderness to find likewise feelings.

The central park in the story resembles and functions like the American wilderness, in the other stories we have read. “the park offered me the possibility of solitude, of separating myself from the rest of the world” to the narrator the park works, as a way to look inwards and to seek tranquility. he finds this use in the park, because of its huge difference to the rest of the city. Where it is hectic and filled with people, who judges those who doesn’t act like the rest of the crowd, but in the park he can be have his own space, where people doesn’t look at him weirdly for doing things that would be thought as weird in the inner city. He can therefore have this peaceful and quiet place to himself, where he can relax without others judging him for doing what he wants to, and this can be resembled to the wilderness, we have read about in the other stories. In which people goes into the wilderness to seek solitude and relaxation, where they don’t need to think about what other people are thinking about them, as there are none.