Young & Wild Bolden

"Webb twenty and Bolden seventeen when they worked in fun fairs alongh the coast. Being financially independent for the first time they spend all their money on girls, and sometimes on women. They take rooms, stock beer, and graduallypaste their characters onto each other. They spend a week alone building up the apartment in Pontchartrain. It is during this time that Webb and Bolden get to know each other. Afterwards, busy with women, their friendship is a public act of repartee, bouncing jokes off each other in female company." (35)

In this passage we can infer that Buddy Bolden was a heavy drinker and liked to party most of the time. It also demonstrates how even being a kid he worked for what he wanted; girls and booze. It is important to highlight the fact that Buddy is a hard working man that strives for what he wants, the apartment, independence, freedom, etc. A peculiar piece from the passage that caught my attention was when narrator states that he spent his "money on girls, and occasionally women" (35) meaning that he was still not a real man and was not prepared to be one. Buddy is also a guy that keeps his personality the same no matter who surrounds him. From the knowledge the passage transmits it is clear that Bolden is an adult trapped in the body of a teenager, wanting to be more of himself than what he really is prepared to receive.