The Jacket is a short story written and produced by Gary Soto with the moral of the story being the clothes people wear can reflect how they feel. In this story a child needs a new jacket and asks his mom for one. After asking for a leather jacket with steel studs like a biker would wear. When he asks for this what he finds on his bed later is a disgusting greenish yellow jacket. The usual symbolism in this short story usually shows hate through his relationship with the jacket. In the story he throws the jacket into an alley near his house just to pick it back up minutes later. This symbolism show that the jacket causes him so much pain but he's stuck with it because his mom wont buy him a new one. Another symbol that supports he hates the