Matty is the first major character in Rent Boy’s circle of friends to die during the timeline of the novel. He doesn’t realize that he has HIV, and he gets a serious brain infection from the feces of a kitten he spontaneously adopts. Matty’s seemingly random death illustrates how precarious life is in Leith and how death often comes prematurely to the novel’s young characters.
Matty Quotes in Trainspotting
The Trainspotting quotes below are all either spoken by Matty or refer to Matty . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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It aw started tae go wrong fir the perr bastard whin we came back up here. It nivir stoaped gaun wrong eftir that. Perr Matty.
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Matty Quotes in Trainspotting
The Trainspotting quotes below are all either spoken by Matty or refer to Matty . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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It aw started tae go wrong fir the perr bastard whin we came back up here. It nivir stoaped gaun wrong eftir that. Perr Matty.
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