A Literary Analysis Of Powder, By Tobias Wolff

“Powder” is a short story, by Tobias Wolff, about a boy and his father that are heading home through high snows. The father has had limited time with his son due to the family being divorced. The father and son go skiing and on the way home, they are stopped by trooper telling them that the roads are closed because the roads were snowed over. The father and son stop a small dinner to figure out how they were going to get the son home, since they had to be home before night according to the mother. The two wait for trooper to be out of the way in order to pass by the road stops and head home.
The relationship of the father and son is very strain in places. The father hasn’t been the best at taking care of his son so see his son has been limited,
The son was able to trust his father final after year of the father not being able to completely prove himself. The son trusts him after understanding how much his father is determined to have him home. The son knows that he’ll probably never see his father again so he enjoys the time they do have(Tobias Wolff, paragraph 33). The son accepting his father could be him releasing some stress from the divorce(Amy Desai, J.D.,The scope of this last finding…).
In the final paragraph, the son is comparing them driving in the snow to riding downhill or in a speedboat. The son seems to use these descriptions as a metaphor for being free and living on a whim. The son talks about his father being a great driver. “Such subtlety at the wheel, such tactful pedalwork.” The son seem to let go and become carefree like a child should.
“Powder, by Tobias Wolff, shows the short adventure a father and his son had one afternoon. Thought the story, the son shows signs of problems resulting from the divorce of his parents. Problems like always playing ahead and never acting on a whim. The father also isn’t the best when it come to being reliable for the son or the son’s