"The Drunkard" #5

The boy's drunkenness in this story is told through the perspective of the boy himself, the father, the ladies on the porch steps, and the mother. The boy finds himself in an unclear and foreign frame of mind; he does not feel well and is imbalanced, just as any drunk person. The father is completely embarrassed as he drags his son home. The ladies on the porch find the boy to be quite amusing. After all what could be more funny than a drunk boy yelling at his father and the ladies as if he were an adult? The mother takes a different approach. She praises her son for being drunk because he was finally successfully in putting the brakes on his father. I find this story to be quite ironic in that the father is so embarassed of his son's actions, yet when the father gets drunk he most likely acts in the same way.