Those Winter Sundays Analysis

In “Those Winter Sundays”. The relationship with the speaker and his father seems to be filled with all mixed feelings. Admiration, love, misunderstanding, fear, and also hate. The speaker never thanks his father for his small deeds, and only helped or got out of bed if he was need. The speaker never said much to his father, and would occasionally be somewhat afraid of him. Either way his father still got up and provided for his son on a cold day. “With the cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze.” (101) Besides the fact that his father was a hardworking man throughout the week, when it came to those winter Sundays he still lit the fire wood and shinned his sons’ shoes. The speaker still spoke