Why, Honey? by Raymond Carver is a short story written in letter format, where mother (the narrator) tells of his son.

When mother’s son turned 15 she started to be more considered of his son behavioral. Before teenage years her son was a normal child, but suddenly he started to behave oddly.

First time, when mother find out of his son’s weird acting was after Fourth of July, when their cat Trudy gone missing. Cat was found dead from neighbor’s backyard. Neighbor told the Mother that he’d seen his son torturing their cat to death. – First mother couldn’t believe it but as the time has gone, she started to believe it.

Her son started lying and things between them got worse. Son lied about his salary which he said was 80 dollars, but his mother found out that the real salary was 28 dollars. Mother just couldn’t realize why her son would lie such a thing.

Next odd act from her son was when he lied again this time son lied of his free time. He said that he’d be watching some show, but in reality he were in school dance or riding with somebody in a car.

Mother started to be real considered of his son when he started laying of school field trips and when she found bloody shirt at back of his trunk with his knife and shotgun. Son told her that he had a bloody nose that day, but the Mother didn’t know either believe his son or not.

She started to get real nervous around his son. One day she tried to ask why he was acting so weirdly and why he wasn’t telling the truth. He son told her to kneel, but instead of kneeling to her son she just ran to her room, locked the door and never said anything to his son ever again.

Mother still knew what was going on in her son’s life, even though they really didn’t meet. She read things of her son from the paper and hear what he was doing.

I think that the mother had right to be considered of his son. I think every mom would be when they find out that their child is lying and ’playing’ with them.
Last paragraph suggest that mother didn’t want to be recognized or known or find, she didn’t want to be known as a mother of his son or she didn’t wanted to be contacted with anybody from the past. I think mother was quite reliable. I don’t know why she would lie of his son in the way she wrote.

I think the mother is writing to son’s father.