Photograph of My Father in his Twenty-Second Year

Was Carver's poem about disappointment and a confession about alcohol? Or was he just angry about not being able to go fishing with his father. This poem has given a person who reads it a picture in one's mind of the father and his display of a day away from his son. The father wanted to be bold and act strong for his family, never giving in which is a sign of weakness. This poem compares to my father who is a bold man never showing emotion except anger. Like the picture of the man, shows a man who uses their hands to make a living, worn and strong hands. Many eyes may have not shown love, they maybe had shown do as I say kind of thing. His eyes were they bloodshot from drinking too much beer? What was the photo trying to say? Alcohol changes lives it separates families and friends. Wonder if the boy even got to go fishing didn't sound like it to me. In the last line Carver wrote that the boy "don't even know the places of fish?"(Line15) An opportunity to spend time together whether on shore or in a boat fishing is a great time to talk or just listen to nature.