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Green Eyes
The narrator inherits his bright green eyes, like “a bucket of summer peas,” from his Dad—and fittingly, their shared eyes symbolize the various mentalities and skills that Dad passes on to the narrator. Early…
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Fire
Throughout Things We Didn’t See Coming, various forms of fire represent just how much routine life can coexist with apocalyptic circumstances. In the first chapter, the narrator’s mother Cate, his Grandma…
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Diamonds/Jewelry
In the novel, diamonds and jewelry represent the persistence of capitalist ideology through periods of apocalyptic change. Though the narrator and his girlfriend Margo can barely acquire the food and water they need to survive…
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