Dandelion Wine: Douglas In the book, Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury uses the character, Douglas, as a model of himself and to portray the feelings he once felt. While all of this seems great, he manages to entangle a haunting past that every one person in Green Town, Illinois must learn to let go of. No matter how old we are, a piece of our past stays with us forever. When we were little, we had no cares, so the life we lived seemed so innocent. As we fall closer and closer to this wall we must climb; this wall that is ever so high, and ever so slick; we lose a little of the child within us. This wall, or barrier we must breach, is no more than a simple introduc