Response to "powder"

In the first two paragraphs of the text, the narrator probably did not think much of his father as a role model. He was irresponsible and indifferent to people’s opinions and worries other than himself. For example, in the first paragraph the father snuck in his underage son “into a nightclub during [their] last visit” (Powder 17). Apparently from what the narrator had said, it seems that the mother and father have separated and the son is currently residing with the mother. The irresponsible behavior of the father may have been a factor to the separation of the family. Second, “he was indifferent to my fretting” (Powder 17) as it started snowing at the peak and decided to stay a while longer. In the second paragraph the father insisted that the two of them should continue to go skiing when they should have been going home. The father made a promise to the mother to have their son home for Christmas Eve dinner if they went skiing.

The narrator’s opinion of the father begins to change in the middle of the text when the father said “I’ll tell you what I want. I want us to be together again. Is that