Mr. J. Blue

Mr. Blue is the main character of the book after which he is named. The reader never learns his first name, only his first initial J. One wonders if this is not to intimate that he name is Jesus because he attempts to imitate Christ in the best way he knows how. Mr. Blue is constantly described as the happiest man in the world. He also does not fit into the world because he approaches it with audacity and a refusal to conform to ordinary matters.

Mr. Blue does not think of his health, housing, money, or even food. He lives day by day, trying to share the cross of Christ with others, to reawaken their souls, to show them love and kindness in any way that he knows how and to repent for his sins as he comes to them. He takes Christian principles to...