Like Father Like Son

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As children, we would look up to your parents or anybody and say to ourselves “I want to be just like them when I grow up.” And then when we meet them our impression of them changes completely. If you have ever experienced it, you will sympathize with Charlie, the narrator of the story “Reunion” by John Cheever. In the story Charlie wanted to spend time with is dad because he hasn’t seen him in three years. Since he hasn’t seen him in a long time Charlie felt that he and his dad would finally get a chance to spend some time together to bring them closer. But it ended up pushing Charlie and his father away from each other even more so: or did it? In the story Charlie explains that his father was a stranger to him because his dad and his mother divorced three years prior to their meeting. I can kind of tell that they were strangers and that they did not have that father and son bond. For example Charlie said, ”He stroke my back and shook my hand and said hi Charlie.”(page1) Now most fathers would shake their son’s hand but not the way his dad shook his hand and said his name, as if it was the beginning of a business meeting. But Charlie didn’t mind he was just happy to see his dad and he just wanted to be in the presence of his dad. As the story goes on Charlie and his dad stop at some bars to get some lunch, and I can tell that Charlie’s dad is rude and impatient because the way he treats the waiters and waitress. For example, how he talked to the waiter in the first bar. He asks the waiter “can we have a little service here?”(page1) and then he ends it with a command chop-chop. The waiter gets mad and Charlie’s dad gets made because he feels as though the bar is not fulfilling his needs. When they went to another bar his dad was still being rude, by demanding more liquor while striking the glass with his knife and saying, “Can we trouble you to bring us two more

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