Peter Pan Metaphors

Introduction:
In the 1911 novella Peter and Wendy, its author, James Matthew Barrie narrates the story of a boy who does not want to grow up and the adventures involving him, the Darling children, dreadful pirates, unconventional “redskins”, fairies and mermaids.
On the very first line of his famous novel, Barrie sentenced: “All children, except one, grow up” . More than a hundred years after these words were written, we can say that Barrie could not be more right. Peter Pan, or the boy who wouldn’t grow up, has been immortalized not only in Barrie’s stories, but also in our minds and our hearts. This childish boy is nowadays one of the most remarkable characters of the last centuries, who since its first appearance on a London theatre in 1904 has dazzled both adults and children throughout years and generations.
James Barrie’s story’s renown is based on how he succeeded in explaining the conflict between adults and children and the refusal of growing up by creating a parallel universe called Neverland, which mirrors some of the human psychological battles with a series of metaphors, in a way that children can enjoy and adults can
The development of the couple’s friendship as well as Wendy’s progress as a character was strongly influenced by the writer’s family life and more precisely by his relationship with three women: Mary Ansell, his wife since 1894 to 1909; Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, the mother of the Llewelyn Davies boys, who not only inspired Peter Pan’s adventures, but also who Barrie adopted after their parents’ death in 1910; and Margaret Ogilvy, his mother, from whom he wrote a biographical essay: Margaret Ogilvy, by her son