The boy in s
short story is characterized in a number of different ways, including the
following:
- He grows up in relatively poor and unpromising
circumstances, but he does not seem especially bitter, angry, or self-pitying about those
circumstances themselves. Whatever harsh judgments he makes are judgments he usually directs at
himself. - He seems as imaginative as an adult as he was as a boy, as when he
usesto describe how the
other houses of the
street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brown imperturbable
faces.
- He seems unconventional, as when he
notes that he liked a particular book because its pages were yellow. Another kind of boy might
have had entirely different, and entirely predictable, kinds of reasons for liking a particular
book. - He seems capable of appreciating ethical behavior, as in his praise
of the very charitable priest. - He is observant, as when he notes
that
The space of sky above us was
the...
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