Dan refuses to wear glasses because he believes they make him ugly. Consequently, he fails at sports (he cannot see the ball) and lives in a constant fog. He falls in love with a girl named Mia , but he only dares to look at her when she is centimeters away.
The protagonist, who serves as an alter ego for Eliade, is a student obsessed with his "short-sightedness"—not just as a physical ailment, but as a metaphor for his inability to see the world clearly and his isolation from his peers. Key Themes and Structure mircea eliade romanul adolescentului miop pdf