We don't pick our family
The principal individual storyteller composes right on time in the story, "He was an outsider to me [...] yet when I saw him I felt that he was my dad, my fragile living creature and blood, my future and my fate" (183). Our folks decide our hereditary qualities, which thus help decide our identity, characteristics, and propensities. Despite the fact that the storyteller says "that was the last time I saw my dad" (185), his dad will "restore" each time he winds up acting correspondingly to his dad.
Smart individuals can be the most exceedingly terrible
The father has a secretary, appears on time, and at various focuses communicates in French, Italian, and German. We don't take in his calling, however the father extends an informed air, yet one which is damaging to the administration staff.
The "sorows of gin"
Cheever battled with liquor addiction himself, and the character of the father undoubtedly drinks gin. While the peruser is left to understand why the father demonstrations like a seething alcoholic, at a straightforward level this character does not know how to identify with his irritated child in any kind of solid, typical way, so he fills the void with injurious cooperations with waitstaff, to the gentle repulsiveness of his child.
