Bricklayer'S Son By Alfred Lubrano Essay

in The Mason and Bricklayer’s boy, expresses the hard work and determination of both Bates and Lubrano’s father had to go through by being long-term blue-collar bricklayers in order for their sons to become “office” white-collar workers representing the achievement of the American dream. In The Mason interview of Carl Murray Bates, interviewed by Studs Terkel, the story expresses Bates’s passion for stone ever since he was a 17-year old boy. Bates first talks about his passion for stone by expressing the long history of the art form, where stone mason goes way back before the time of the bible and the pyramids of Egypt while still using the same sorts of methods to masonry to-this-day. He also expresses the fact that machinery couldn't get into the bricklaying industry because the art form was too…