Love of Family

In "The Red Convertible" Marty is always talking about what he notices about his brother before and after war. When reading this work I obviously understood the love between the brothers of Marty and Stephan. At one point in the work Marty even says that it was always "Marty and Stephan." When both of them had lost their work/jobs is when they bonded the most which is what I feel makes them so close. When a person loses their job a lot of stress is obviously put on them and need to reach out to someone. The fact they both lost their work at the same time pretty much made it easier for them to bond with one another. The brothers not having jobs and still being yound made it so having the red convertible and driving around was nothing to worry about.
When the trip around the country was over with the Army took Stephan away. So Marty still believing that everything will almost be the same when Stephan comes back works on the car for Stephan to enjoy when he comes home seeing as how this is what the brothers enjoyed most with each other. While Stephan was gone Marty bought everyone a color tv to enjoy, but he realizes the problem that will arise when Stephan comes home. With everything weird or different Stephan does nobody says anything like you would expect in a normal family out of love. When Marty realizes how different Stephan is he goes to th extreme of destroying the convertible to get his attention. This is what finally brings back for the most part the brother Marty was used to. Through the love Marty had for his brother Stephan he even changed the tv to make it have a not so good picture so it didn't shock him as much as it first did. All in all Marty did what a good brother would do in my mind to protect/show his unchanged love of his brother Stephan who did change due to war.