A short story Why, Honey? by Raymond Carver tells about mother and her son’s relationship from mother’s perspective. Mother writes a letter to someone and tells crazy things about her son. Mother says that he is a good boy but the son never tells the truth about anything. (For example son lied about his paycheck that it was bigger than it really was) Mother also says that her’s son did have some outbursts. (For example he did kill their cat with some other boy in a really brutal way) I think that these claims are convincing but I also think that it’s little weird how mother did started to fear about the boy when they stopped to keep in touch with each other even if the son was so cold and rude to his mother sometimes.

Mother writes the letter like something bad is going to happen. When mother tells that she fears her own son it makes the reader wonder that boy could really do something to his own mother. The end of the letter makes the plot even more sinister when mother writes that she changed her name and moved away just because she is so afraid.

The final paragraph of the letter is really intresting. Mother is wondering why this random person (whom she writes the letter) has write to her and how this person knows about everything. I think that mother writes to mysterious person because she finally wanted to tell someone about her suffering or this person is someone who told that he/she knows abouyt son and mother had to tell rest of the story from her perspective.The end is really exceptional (like the whole short story) because I don’t have any clue who this random person might be whom mother writes. But I think that mother must know this person pretty well because she tells so openly about her son.

After all I think it was a really great short story even if I’m not really big fan of them. The plot was absorbing and sinister but also a bit touching because it was so sad that mother have to be so afraid and they can’t keep in touch with each other.