In a somewhat sub-plot, Biff wants to try again at his city life and get a good job that will not only take care of his families’ financial problems, but will also make his father proud of him. Another sub-plot suggests that Willy once had an affair, this somewhat strained his relationship with his son. The overall inciting incident of the play is when the mother tells Biff about what’s really going on with his father. That they’ve been borrowing money to pay their bills, their father drives all over the country and doesn’t actually sell anything. She also tells her two sons about how their father is suicidal and she has found a piece of rubber tubing in the basement that he will use to kill himself.
Psychoanalytical View of The Giving Tree In “The Giving Tree” by Shel Silverstein, both the characters, the tree and the boy, have mirrored psyche’s as their ego’s seek their ID’s, ultimately gratifying themselves rather than each other. While the boy’s initial desire is to take from the tree, the tree’s initial desire is to give, showing how both characters ID’s overwhelm their superego. However, the boy’s desires changes as he grows into an old man, while the tree’s desires stay the same. Initially, the young boy’s desire to play with the tree without any fears, needs, and conflicts reveals his unconscious mind. This is shown when “they would play hide and go seek…[and] he would sleep in her shade” (Silverstein 9-10).
Duddy’s grandfather influenced Duddy with respect to his goal of getting land in life. The Boy Wonder influenced the way in which Duddy attained his land. Duddy Kravitz grew up without much support from his family: his mother, Minnie, died when he was about six years old, and he doesn't remember anything about her, and Max, his father, clearly preferred Lennie, his older son, to Duddy. Max loved to tell his friends stories about the local gangster, the great Boy Wonder over and over again. "Be like the Boy Wonder", he said to Duddy, encouraging him to become a gangster.
Roach lacked parental support from his father throughout his adolescent years. The scene that best emphasised the abuse that Roach endured as a child was told during his birthday party with his friends. During the scene he was constantly complaining of how his father would never allow him to have a birthday party and how he was never allowed to experience what it felt like to be a child. It is believe part of his problems were caused and formed from the lack of support of his parents. However, after Roach left his father’s house, he could have immediately searched for help and looked at turning his life around.
In the beginning, Jem gets along well with Scout and other children. However, as he grows older, he often becomes annoyed by Scout, does not pay as much attention to her, and spends more time with Dill over the summers. . There are numerous examples throughout the story that highlight how Jem changes mentally, the way he perceives and interprets what happens around him. As a young boy, Jem believes in childish superstitions such as ghosts, as he calls them hot Amini 2 steams, which he later realizes not to be true.
But Walter begins to see a new side to his great uncles when he stumbles on an old photograph of a beautiful woman hidden away in a trunk and asks Garth who she is. FFor 14-year old Walter, his great uncles’ farm in rural Texas is the last place on earth he wants to spend the summer. Dumped off by his mother, Mae, in the middle of nowhere with two crazy old men and the promise that she’ll come back for him, Walter doesn’t know what to believe in. Eccentric and gruff, Hub and Garth McCaan are rumored to have been bank robbers, mafia hit men and/or war criminals in their younger days. The truth is elusive, although they do seem to have an endless supply of cash.
He is raised to act based upon what he sees and knows. Since the father is dealing with the fact of losing his loved one, it is consequently the same for the son. The father and his son are similar in the fact that they do not know how to react to each others actions. The boy does not even flinch when his father speaks to him about the dirty wig upon his head. The eight year old putting his smooth arms around his father's neck proves that the boy's strange behavior is partially due to the father's behaviors.
But in the end the father says, “if there had only been time to go up to my club” which tells us that the father is very self-centered and that the only thing he thinks of is him self and his life instead of getting to know his son. The son is getting more and more ashamed of his father, because of the way he behaves at the restaurants. In the beginning he was proud and he had high expectations to this meeting but know only an hour and a half later, he know that he will never see his dad again. While standing at a newsstand the father is doing it all over again. He is being rude to the seller and he is shouting at him.
Victor was a small boy who watched his father, as he grew up, drink bottle after bottle of alcohol. Victor would be upset because he felt like his father didn’t pay him any attention. Victor felt like his father put more attention into the bottle than then him being his son. The scene in the movie where they are having a get together and they are all outside drinking and victor walks outside in disgust. Victor was looking at his father drinking alcohol and making a fool of himself, not knowing what to say or do.
Pony and Darry seem to have never gotten along ever since their parents died in a car accident. Sodapop is the only one that gets them both according to Pony. They fight over everything Pony does that does not meet Darry’s standards. Pony once said, “ Darry and I just don’t dig each other” (Hinton 13). Pony just seems to think that Darry would want him to be put in a boys home.