The Remarkable Rocket by Oscar Wilde Review

This story was my favorite of the stories in The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde.  I am a fan of the work of Oscar Wilde due to his writing using not humans as characters but rather animals and inanimate objects.  In this story it is fireworks that are used as a majority of the characters.  These fireworks are waiting in a castle to be set off after a wedding that night.  One very self-concerned rocket is to be saved as the finale and speaks the most through the story.  He speaks quite highly of himself and goes on to denigrate the other fireworks.  He claims that since he is the last rocket to be set off he is clearly superior to all others.  He speaks of how it is his one and only dream to burt high in the air among the stars gazed upon by hundreds of spectators.  His own words lead him to tears of "pity" for the other "inferior" rockets.  As a result of his tears he is too wet to be set off and thrown away.  The next day, two boys find the rocket and accidently set him off in broad daylight.  No one observes as the rocket explodes over some woods far from the city.  I believe this story just goes to show that those who talk down on others and have over confidence in themselves may be unwanted and unseen by other people.