Timmy Symbolism

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In addition to romantic relationships and friendships, society destroys familial relationships to market products. In the second vignette a “hip looking teen,” Timmy, chooses to eat macaroni and cheese instead of helping Grammy, who gets hit by a truck (156). He is constantly attached to his video game and “is conflicted” between eating his MacAttack and saving his grandmother (156). Timmy symbolizes the majority of superficial individuals bred by the consumerist culture; these individuals need to be constantly occupied and entertained even in the span of “forty seconds”; they are conflicted over trite and selfish issues in lieu of serious problems (156). Furthermore, Timmy’s character illustrates the pettiness of society’s oppressors, as his
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