“The whiskey on your breath could make a small boy dizzy; but I hung on like death: such waltzing was not easy.” Says Theodore Roethke from the short story “Under the influence” a sentimental and hot- blooded story by Scott Russell Sanders.revolves around the son of drunken father, a boy that felt insufficient and weak.
“A man consumed by disease rather than by disappointment” an endless journey down the path of a drug- a drug that took the life of his father. Affected by the lies that clouded his mind scott learned to pretend to not see him in his stupor, rather, he drowned in the choices he made, overlooking the words that his father spoke “I never touched a drop” he would say. When his father passed all Scott found were empty bottles,
“A man consumed by disease rather than by disappointment” an endless journey down the path of a drug- a drug that took the life of his father. Affected by the lies that clouded his mind scott learned to pretend to not see him in his stupor, rather, he drowned in the choices he made, overlooking the words that his father spoke “I never touched a drop” he would say. When his father passed all Scott found were empty bottles,