I read a short novel called Why Honey? by Raymond Carver. The text consists of a letter that the mom has written to somebody. She is telling about her son acting oddly around her. He had started lying to his mom at a young age and doing weird things such as torturing a cat, buying a shot gun and lying about his wage. The mother started to suspect bad things and became afraid. She caught into a fight with her son about his behavior and he left for good. She hasn’t spoken to him or seen him eye to eye after the fight. The boy grew up and became a politic and now the mother thinks that she has been observed by her son. She moved to another town and chanced her name.

To me the mothers accusations seemed fair. She had many reasons to suspect him. He had lied many times and done questionable things. He lied about not torturing a cat though the phenomena had a eye witness. He lied about his wage that he had drawn. Though the mother had evidence, she seems a little paranoid to me. The mother keeps telling how afraid she was and that her son wouldn’t react properly to anything, he always had a excuse.

I don’t really know what to think of the narrator. As I said she seems a little paranoid to me, especially at the end. But she does have the evidence. She is writing to somebody to share her feelings. I think she could be writing to her son who may have found out where she lives and who she actually is. Could her son be after her because he doesn’t want her to reveal his true nature?