Why Is Bobby Grow Up In The Great Gatsby

A young 16 year old teen has to go against everything in his daily life to raise his daughter feather. He has to go through the struggles of growing up and he has to become a man. This is why I know that Bobby grew up during this novel.

You start to see Bobby growing up. You see him grow up through this entire book. You can see him slowly give up his childhood he misses arcades and he misses the things he used to do with his friends but things have to change. Some will be hard to give up but he has to give them up. His friend calls him up to play and game of basketball. Basketball can be a symbol of his past and his teenage years which he is giving up on for feather. Says yes and leaves he gets out the apartment and around the corner when

he realizes he left his baby girl at home. He rushes back and finds her still there asleep. "I lay my basketball down and it rolled out the door and into the hallway". His childhood rolls out the door and is never to be seen again.

The red balloon. When Nia was ten she wanted to be a balloonist. For Boobys sixteenth birthday she gave Booby a red balloon. Then told him the news about how she is pregnant. When she gave Bobby that balloon she was giving him everything. You don't realize how powerful that balloon can be. its her childhood it's her past it's her life it's her. Nia gives Bobby her life.

In the party chapter you see Bobby and Nia at a typical high school party. Nia wants to dance so bad. Nia wants to be like she was before she had had this huge responsibility, before she had to change her entire life. Bobby just sits there and watches everyone its like hes older than everyone. Is this him maturing as we go along, is this Bobby growing up. After all of this they go out in the hallway because it got to smokey. And they just sit there and talk. Nia ends up falling asleep on Bobby's shoulder which shows that there slowly maturing.
This proves that Bobby matured during this novel. You see him start as a young man and finish as a man. Bobby's gone through life and death his girlfriend is basically dead and he's on his on. In heaven he took the responsibility to himself to move to a better place. He left his childhood. This is why i know Bobby matured.