The short story ‘’Why, honey’’ was a story about a mother and her son, and the son didn’t have a father in the text. The son had been strange pretty much all his life, especially his teen age. Mother was blue about all the outbursts and lying, and one day the son was gone and never got back.

The narrator of the story is the mother. The text itself is sad and dramatic, maybe that’s how the mother experienced the situation. If the son had had an opportunity to tell his side of the story, it might have been a lot different from the mother’s story. I mean that maybe the mother was way too suspicious, and she, intentionally or accidentally, misunderstood all the things that her son did and said. She might have overreacted all the stuff, and that’s why he left. Also, maybe the mother’s evidences about her son being so weird were overacted. Her accusations made the son immediately guilty.

In the text, when the son had left, the mother said how she read all the things about his son in the papers; how he joined the marines, married a girl, got himself into politics, ran for governor and was elected. He was famous. She hadn’t met her son since the graduation day. She says in the text that she is afraid. In my opinion, it sounds like the mother is out of her mind. She made the text sound like the son was the evil one in the story. To me it sounded like the mom was being delusional the whole time. Seemed like she was worried for her son all the time for no reason. At the end of the day, the son didn’t actually do anything wrong in the text, never even got caught by doing bad things. So, I think that the mother was crazy all the time, not the son.