Species Trouble: The Abjection of Adolescence in E. B. White's Stuart Little

According to Gubar, Stuart Little mirrors the plight of the adolescent caught between the two categories of child and adult. Neither entirely mouse nor human, Stuart is both an embarrassment and an asset to his family. Similarly, critics have been hard pressed to agree on a response. It is Gubar's contention that "Stuart Little is so exclusively about the ongoing operation of growing up that readers fail to recognize adolescence as an explicit theme."