The story “Perfect Stranger” by Amy Casil is a first person story set in future with three important characters; the characters are Gary, Carolyn, and Denny. The main character Gary and his wife Carolyn trying to heal their son Denny through the use of genetic modification, yet over the years Gary feel’s that his son is a stranger. The genetic modification started with a heart problem that Denny was born with that would be fatal, and then the modification moves to Denny needing help in math much to Gary’s dismay, Denny then starts to gain weight due to Denny’s new modification. Even though Gary hates all of the quick fixes the modifications, Carolyn gets Gary to allow Denny’s next genetic modification to get his metabolism fixed along with other various modifications such as being taller, more athletic, and stronger, but the most prominent being that Denny’s eyes are now blue instead of brown (Casil 1265-74). “Perfect Stranger” is a story that explains the cycle of racism and bullying in modern culture through symbolism. Gary is a round character…show more content… Denny symbolizes the current generation and how they are innocent and unaware to the social, economical, and political issues that minorities experience on a daily basis. Denny described as an athletic, artistic teenager with toned muscles similar to Gary and has blue eyes instead of brown that Gary and Caroline both have just like Germany’s belief of the master race. Denny had gotten a call while he was sleeping from a girl named Candy, though his dad mistook her for another girl named Apple. Denny knew that Candy had a crush on him, though he didn’t like her due to her being without modifications and like Apple because of her modifications. Showing how much he had changed due to the modifications. He had changed so much that even his own father doesn’t recognize him. Denny had said “She’s homely, Dad” and “She’s a mundane, Dad” (Casil
