"The Drunkard"

The thing that caught me of guard most about this story is the fact that the boy's mother is calling him her brave little man and an angel to his father. I think that most parents would be horrified to find that their child wanted to taste a beer and then got drunk off of it. However, I do not think this situation is like most others because the mother/wife has to deal with her husband's drunkenness when he falls off the wagon and now she only has to deal with he little boy. I think that the fact that the father was embarrassed by his son's drunken state will maybe cause him to think of his own. There was a role reversal in this story and now that the father realizes what a drunk person looks and acts like, and now that he sees it in his own family, he might not revert to drunkenness anymore. Another thing is that the drunken state of the little boy is funny, which is sad, because it is son unexpected and absurd. Also, the things he says sound like an adult coming from a child. This was really quite ironic in many ways.