“Reunion” by John Cheever is a short story about Charlie who hasn’t seen his father since his parents’ divorce. So on his way back to his mother’s house he schedules a lunch with his father. Yet Charlie’s view on his father changes when his father continually has problems controlling his bad attitude. In “Powder and “Reunion” the authors use father/son relationships, point of view and conflict to portray to the reader that almost all father and son relationships have their flaws. In the two short stories it seems as if the sons’ relationships with their father were quite different, but they also had their similarities because both of them cared for their son.
Most workaholics are in marriages that have been going on for many years, and this lack of attention has been hurting their wife for majority of the relationship. Women claim that they have to raise their children alone. Emotional connections are lost when fathers work too much. “My husband works too much and it used to bother my child as he was growing up. He understands now because he is a little older, but just as I was, he was always worried that something happened to his father.
Also, her lack of intelligence has left her with no job and an inability to get a job. In the story, there are many reasons contributing to Jean’s feeling of emptiness and difficulty in her life. To begin, her husband, Ross feels as though he has married beneath himself, and he does not love her anymore. Their marriage was most likely caused by Jean getting pregnant with their son, which made Ross feel like he had to marry her out of force. In the story, Ross specifically tells their son, Kevin that he should try not to marry beneath himself because he will end up stuck in the same situation as him.
It also meant Sandra had a different relationship with her father than her brothers. Sandra's father often bragged to people that he had seven sons putting her in the wrong category making her seem invisible as if she had no identity. This along with Sandra being the only daughter often forced her to isolate herself from the rest of the family. She spent a lot of time alone. Being the only daughter meant that she did not have another sister that could empathize with her and keep her company.
Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” is a tragic story of Willy Loman, the father of what can be considered a typical American family. Willy’s father was never there to teach him the importance of tradition, values, or healthy opinions. Willy has spent his whole life chasing the American dream of wealth and posterity working as a salesman. Now in his sixty’s he is suffering from memory loss, he has lost his job, and has no financial security. He never knew his father so he doesn’t have a good sense of his own identity, he makes poor decisions in raising his son’s by instilling a false sense of what it takes to be successful, and allows them to steal and cheat.
But first he was thinking in asking his mother for money. His mother was the one who kept all his money from working in the fields. He convinced his mother to give him the two dollars that the gun was worth, by saying that the gun will be for his father because they don’t know what will happen in the house. But he did not give the gun to his father, he decided to keep it. At the next day after he bought the gun he decided to leave his house, it was not yet daylight.
You don’t need a gun”(Wright 373). In this particular quote, Wright seems to point out that the desire of the boy is not the gun itself, but the legality of him owning one. Since owning a gun is the fantasy of the boy, because others do not approve of the idea, it seems as if he pushes for it even more. The store clerk offers the boy two dollars for the gun. With this thought in mind, the boy begins his journey towards an unexpected fate.
His family is fully dependent on his ability to work, and he never misses work. Because he did not show up for work the morning of his transformation, his manager came to the house and tried to get an explanation from Gregor as to why he missed work. It is at this point that Gregor’s family first sees him for the bug that he is. His mother has an immediate concern for Gregor. She screams “‘Help, for God’s sake, help!’...fled from the table, and fell into the arms of his father, who came rushing up to her” (18).
The ideal man provides for his family materially and is brave on the battlefield. Second, the unbalance plays a part in the lives of the clan members. For instance the main character in the novel, Okonkwo, is extremely focused on being super masculine and finds everything feminine less worthy, leaving him very unbalanced. This unbalance leads him to violate the feminine beliefs such as peace. For instance, during the “Week of Peace” Okonkwo came home to find that his second wife had not returned from her friend’s house in time to cook dinner.
My Dad was the sole provider in our household but we always made it. My Mom is a housewife and I have two sister and a younger brother. Yes, we had tough times where my Dad lost his job, he has been on unemployment several times but never accepted welfare and an option. My father believes a man should work to provide for his family, being on welfare is not acceptable for him. He feels ashamed to raise his kids on Government money.