Untill Gwen By Dennis Lehane Analysis

The story "Untill Gwen" by Dennis Lehane is about a boy named Bobby. It is a secand person point of view that explaines Boby is just release from prison and his father comeup to fatch himup on that day with a hooker name Mandy in the back of seat. The story begins with immediate and then go back to prior. Bobby was a young boy is trained as thieves and scam by his father that his father is an old professional thief. He is a cold heart person even to Bobby, because he is not Bobby's biological father, as it shows in the story that it mentions, "Another time he got mean, told you you weren't his anyway, some whore's kid he found in a barrel" (656). Therefore, this is his father's cause of showing coldness. Bobby is just outside of him, not as
However, Gwen gives him a kind of encouragement to live his life who he really is and he is beautiful to her eyes. Although, Bubby is no longer see her face again as before, because she is dead under his father's hand, because of diamant that they steelt prevous makes his father doubt of her. And, other reasons are that Bobby is changed after release from prison: during his day in jail he realizes mistakes that he and his father did, not only this, under the government policy he also learns many things in his four years in prison. It makes him responsible for others and also himself, not like his father, kill people who are budden to his way of getting money! After Gwen death, he is very sad, because she is the only reason he can live, because narrator explains "it is the night you met Gwen. You are two years away from away from prison, and you feel like someone has finally given you permission to live" (651). At this point, we can clearly know that people who are doing big crimes are risk of death any time and without love and care from no one Bobby does not wish to