In the short story "The Secret to Not Getting Stuck" By jay Woodruff the function of the protagonists father's stories of Route 66 and other adventures is to show how they are like two cars traveling in the opposite direction on the highway.
Every highway was once Freshly paved but quickly becomes filled with potholes you need to avoid. Del is constantly trying to avoid the potholes in his life and not get stuck which he is able to successfully able to do. However his father is constantly hitting the potholes in his lane because he is a "'sad, and sorry person'" (woodruff 83). When a highway does get filled with potholes it needs to be fixed. When construction workers pave the highway they close one side down and fix it. Just like Del is constantly
Every highway was once Freshly paved but quickly becomes filled with potholes you need to avoid. Del is constantly trying to avoid the potholes in his life and not get stuck which he is able to successfully able to do. However his father is constantly hitting the potholes in his lane because he is a "'sad, and sorry person'" (woodruff 83). When a highway does get filled with potholes it needs to be fixed. When construction workers pave the highway they close one side down and fix it. Just like Del is constantly