Old Misery’s house symbolizes beauty and how times were before the war which he has come to despise. Although Old Misery did nothing to the boys of the Wormsley Common Gang, his house symbolizes the past. Trevor seems to hold deep resentment towards the world around him and things of his past. The boys of the Wormsley Common Gang have themselves witnessed and been a part of the destruction the World War II has left behind in London. The world the boys live in is unstable and all that the only normalcy they have is each other. The newest member of the gang is Trevor who often sits in silence with little interaction with his fellow gang members and seems ashamed of the person he once was. “He never wasted a word even to tell his name until that was required of him by the rules. When he said ‘Trevor’ it was a statement of fact, not as if it would have been with the others a statement of shame or defiance,” suggests that Trevor only speaks when he is giving orders; his answers are often short and to the point. “There was every reason why T, as he was afterwards referred to, should have been an object of mockery – there was his name (and they substituted the initial because otherwise they had no excuse not to laugh at it), the fact that his father, a former architect and present clerk, had ‘come down in the world’ and that his mother considered herself better than the neighbours,” points to the name Trevor being a name of the upper class, so by being referred to as T, he avoids being the mimicry of his friends. T came from a family of wealth that has since been devastated by the war and is now a member of the lower