... Convertible can be paralleled to the main characters in Alexie's This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix Arizona. In The Red Convertible two brothers, Lyman and Henry Junior have an adventurous youth driving in a car without the restricting parents that people of some other cultures may have had. In This Is What It Means ... The-Fire have an adventure on a road trip to recover the ashes of victor's father. In both stories the lack of money is evident. When Lyman and Henry purchase the car, Lyman said that they had just enough money for gas to get back home. When Victor's father dies, Victor...

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