When He Went Into His Room On The Road Analysis

The context of this passage describes a typical day in the boy’s life and paints an image of the family’s everyday routine. All the things that he describes are not exciting and show little to know emotion when spoke upon. It is not a bright or happy picture as I can see. The evident disconnection between the parents is shown in how mechanical their actions are and in their lack of communication. The family dynamic is the father working and the mother being a stay at home house wife, who cooks and clean. The father is obviously not passionate about his job working on the boat, and dissatisfied as it has been illustrated in the story when the narrator described, “He was lying on his back and lighting the first cigarette and the radio was talking about the Virginia …show more content…
During the day the tides of the sea is a reflection of his emotional turmoil; an up and down motion. At night, he escapes to his books in his room, to ease the turmoil and find his happy place. This implies the father likes solitude and does not want to interact with his family as this following quote indicates, “went into his room and the radio blared forth the next day’s weather forecast.” It seems like he wants an out but it’s too late. Too late to have any say in what he wants to do with his life because he is now a father, holding the responsibility of working on the boat to provide for his family. It is too late to live his …show more content…
Are things not going to badly because they got less fish than they usually do, or does he really mean things aren’t too bad for working on a boat and living a life he never wanted. The father not giving a blunt answer shows that he cares about his son enough, to not actually say what is making him