The story ”Why, honey?” by Raymond Carver is a letter which the mother has written to someone. In the letter she tells a story about her son who always lies to her and gets outbursts. The mother’s and the son’s relationship isn’t very close because of a lying son and at the end of the story they don’t even keep in touch anymore.

When the son was fifteen their cat disappeared. A couple who lived near them told to the mother that they had seen the cat coming their backyard to die and they thought that her son had caused it with some other boy. The mother could’t believe that her son could do something like that.
When the son got a job he said that he had drawn 80 dollars’ check but the mother found the stub from his job and it was for 28 dollars. The son kept on lying without any reason. The mother thought that if she would ask her son where did he go last night he wouldn’t tell the truth. Once the son was supposed to have gone on a field trip but the next day she got a note from school which said that they wanted permission for a field trip. The mother even found a bloody shirt from the trunk of her son’s car and also a shotgun and a knife. The son gave a bad explanation to the shirt as he always did regardless of what the mother asked him.

Finally one day the mother asked the son why he was always lying but he just stared at her until he moved over alongside her and told her to kneel down. That was the last time the mother saw him except for at his graduation. The mother heard about him from somebody and noticed that he had became famous. She found out his address and began to wrote him a letter every few months but he never answered.Then she thought that he could find her if he wanted and took an unlisted number and changed her name. The mother saw once a car on the street with a man inside and knew he was watching her. And after that she answered phone but nobody talked to her. She was very afraid of everything.

I think that the mother’s claims were always right. The son was always so mysterious and the mother found out many times that he was lying like about his field trip or what he had earned from his job. She had many valid evidences which told much about the son’s honesty.
The mother wrote the letter because she wanted someone to know the story of her son and probably because she wanted to talk about it with someone and get advice.