# the Remarkable Rocket — Children’s Stories character guide

> the Remarkable Rocket in Children’s Stories by Oscar Wilde.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** the Rocket, Rocket, The Remarkable Rocket

**First appearance:** 0004-the-remarkable-rocket

## Snapshot

A firework of boundless self-regard who lectures his fellow rockets on genius, sensitivity, and the vulgarity of audiences, certain that his own brilliance deserves a grander occasion.

## Who they are

The Remarkable Rocket holds court among the fireworks assembled for a royal wedding, treating every other rocket as an inferior being unworthy of his company. His vanity is so complete that he mistakes his own dampness for tears of sensibility and takes offense at the slightest slight, real or imagined. His refusal to launch on schedule, and his endless speeches about his own importance, set up the story's sharpest satire of self-love.

## In the story

### [The Nightingale and the Rose](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/children_s_stories_se/chapters/the-nightingale-and-the-rose)

Not present in this chapter.

### [The Remarkable Rocket](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/children_s_stories_se/chapters/the-remarkable-rocket)

The central character, a pompous and self-absorbed firework who believes his own importance surpasses all others.

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