Soccer Dad Character Analysis

All of our parents are just trying to do the best for us, whether they know how to do it well, or not. When we grow up, we grow up influenced by our parents and what they do and what they say. In this short story Soccer Dad, we see the perspective of the struggles of being a parent, and eventually doing the right thing. We all may not want to do the right thing, but we will. The author especially uses dialogue to get all of his points throughWe also see how the author toys with our emotions with the building of the character. In the Soccer Dad we see that the story is based in the first person point of view; this greatly affects the story. When we read the book from this perspective we can see the struggles of how it is like to be a father. The father in this book grew up with a cruel dad that told him to “Suck it up” (22). When he was a child he was forced to “play an entire baseball game with a broken wrist”, which is why he wants so badly to tell his son to suck it up now (22). Although he hears his dad in his ears, and is seeing signs that he “sucks at being a father” he still …show more content…
He gives us a ruthless father that makes us feel bad for his son and then completely flips our emotions. Brown went so far as to even name the short story Soccer Dad, so we would think that this is a typical dad that wants their son to be the very best, no matter what the cost. He even puts down his wife by explaining how she “twists her ankles when she tries to run”, which really makes me want to dislike this dad even more (21).By the end of the story, we see he is not who he appears to be. The author has cast an allusion on us to make us see a heartless man, but then his cape is taken off to reveal a nice guy. Even though he grew up with a ruthless father, it doesn’t mean he has to be one too. When we see characters grow like this it really affects the way that we feel, and even the way that we go through