Bobby Character Analysis

A child in the same household as Nicholas and the aunt. He is either Nicholas’s younger brother or his boy-cousin, but the story doesn’t specify which. Just after the other children depart for Jagborough, Nicholas mentions to the aunt that Bobby won’t enjoy himself on the excursion since his boots are too tight. When the aunt wonders why Bobby didn’t mention the boots to her, Nicholas says that Bobby told her about it (twice!) but that she never listens to them. When the children return from the beach later in the story, Bobby is indeed grumpy because his boots were too tight, which prevented him from having any fun on the trip. Bobby’s character highlights Nicholas’s powers of observation and deduction as well as the aunt’s ignorance of the real concerns the children have.