Coffee

When Brooke is with her siblings in the café, she agrees to the coffee order her brother makes. However, the waitress knows that this is not her normal order. She gives her a chance to change it, but Brooke does not. The fact that she does not change her order symbolizes the notion that one's identity within a family overrides one's identity as an individual. Even though Brooke is successful and has her own identity at the café, she becomes the youngest child when she is with her siblings and follows the others instead of asserting herself.

Bike's Condition

A man finds Joy’s bike in the narrative’s Prologue. The state of the bike symbolizes Joy’s life. It is shiny and zippy. This suggests a wonderful, careless, breezy life. It is like Joy's character on the surface. However, the handlebars are twisted as if...