The Red Convertable

One thing that i really took out of this story is that the red convertible was much more than just a car to these two brothers. I feel like the car brought a strong bond between the two brothers in the beginning of the story. They both pitch in and buy the car and go on a road trip to various states throughout the whole summer. When Stephan leaves for the Army he gives the car to Marty. When Stephan comes back from war about two years later he is a very changed person. Marty sees this change as a bad thing as well as the rest of the family. I believe that the car being destroyed by Marty really is what brought the two brothers back to being so close.
Stephan begins vigorously trying to fix the car and in the end he is successful and makes the car look as good as new. When this happens I think Stephan's mood really changed and it helped him go back to his past and go back to being his normal self and the great friendship between him and his brother is restored. Stephan is now a much more calm person than he had been since he came home from the war. Once again the two brothers go on a road trip to a river. They get into a fight here over the car, I feel they got into a fight because Marty still wanted Stephan to have the car because that was the reason he went back to his normal self but Stephan wanted Marty to have the car at the same time. After this Stephan jumps into the river and drowns. Marty then puts the car in gear and lets it fall into the river. I believe that this has a very strong sentimental meaning. I think that it meant that Marty seen how happy the car made Stephan and he wanted him to be happy where he rested in his afterlife so he was sort of giving the car to Stephan. The reason i believe he did this was so that he could feel that him and his brother still had the very strong bond that this car both brought to them and was restored between them after the car was fixed even after Stephan had passed away.

Anthony DiChristopher
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