”Why, Honey?” is a short story written by Raymond Carver. The short story tells about mom who afraid something about his son. The whole story is a form of letter. The mom has written a letter to one man and in that letter she tells about her son. She tells about things which makes her suspects her son. She suspects that her son and his friend have put firecrackers in her cat’s ears and in ”you know what”. Their neighbour had seen two boys doing that and had seen the other one of those boys running towards the mom’s and son’s home. The son also has lied about his wages. He said that he got 80 dollars but the mom found the stub that show that he got only 28 dollars. That wasn’t only thing the son lied about. Everytime when the mom asked where did he go last night he always said that he went to the show. Then the mom found out that he went to the school dance or spent the evening riding around with somebody in a car. Once the son was supposed to have gone on a field trip and he even told that he saw land formations. Then a next day mom got a note from the school saying they wanted permission for a field trip. He lied again. The mom also found a shirt full of blood that was in his car. The son said that he had a bad bloody nose. Then one night he took his things and left. Now he is in politics and is governor and the mom is afraid of him. She says that she should be proud of him but she is afraid. She tells also that there have been a man in a car watching her. She wonder how the man whom she is writing to know who she is because she has changed her name and moved to different city.

I think the things that the mom tells about the son is very suspicious. Why he is lying all the time? Why he can’t tell the truth? And why the shirt really is bloody?

The final paragraph tells that the narrator (the mom) is very worried that someone know who she is and where she lives. She doesn’t want to be known. And that’s why she is writing to the man and she wants to know how the man found out who she is.

I think the narrator is reliable but it is also chance that she is little paranoid and imagine things.

The mom may be writing to someone how wants to know things about the son because the son is governor.