![]() It is later revealed that on the “Last Night” before society collapsed, Mark was partying in a casino with his friend, and, when he returned home, saw his zombified mother bent over his father “gnawing away with ecstatic fervor on a flap of his intestine” (p. He is still living with his parents and commuting to the city, where he works in “Customer Relationship Management, New Media Department, of a coffee multinational” that resembles Starbucks (p. When the plague begins, Mark has had a number of failed relationships because he “had a habit of making his girlfriends into things that were less than human” (p. Nonetheless, Whitehead reiterates throughout the novel that Mark is an entirely unexceptional character who “had led a mediocre life exceptional only in the magnitude of its unexceptionality” (p. He grew up on Long Island in the suburbs of New York City with his parents but had dreams of moving to the city and studying to become a lawyer. For much of the novel, little is known about Mark however, as the plot progresses, more information is revealed about him in the form of flashbacks to Mark’s memories of life before the plaque. When the novel begins, he is employed as a “sweeper” in downtown Manhattan tasked with killing “stragglers” who have been infected by the plague. ![]() ![]() Mark Spitz is the protagonist of Zone One. ![]()
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