A Family Man Mr. Morton was an educated man, a father, and a loving husband.

His characters pe rsonality illustrates the contemporary high class man differing in social ideolo gies and manors compared to that of the blue collared workers. During the time o f which preceded the conflict with Joes father, implications of his sense of calm ness and maturity were seen, as he was sitting with his wife while reading the T ime Magazine sections, and enjoying the warm Sunday evening with his family. Wit hin the short hour of which the conflicts arouse, many of his social and ideolog ical attributes were confronted, by the opposising father and his wife. These ac tions not only perforated his known sense of the world, but also awakened the re ality of his own stature within his family. Mr. Mortons actions remained within t he proximities of his own personality, relying not only on his previous experien ces, but also on his ideologies which he was educated with. In the beginning the author applies the setting of a beautiful Sunday evening w ithin an urban park, with a gentle wind passing, as two boys are hard at work pl aying within the sand box. She implies the social class of the Morton by describ ing his actions, as he is reading the Time Magazine, and having his arm around h is wife. This illustrated not only his social stature, but also his personality, that he is a man of his family. It was also identified that Morton was a city-p ale, and worked at the university like a gray factory worker. These inserts indicat ed that the majority of his time and efforts were dedicated to his work rather t han other aspects of his life. Furthermore, not only is he an educated working m an, but also one with moral character. In his argument with Joes father he demons trates his appeal without losing his temper by analyzing and reacting to the con frontation without the use of force. He is also a man of self pity, as he denies the actions and causations referred within the confrontation, as he denies hims elf his own self right to stand up and fight for what should be his family. The se characteristics define and procreate the actions and reactions of the alterca tions in the park. As seen in the commencement of the confrontation, Morton clammily and kindly add resses Joes father about the situation. Mortons first response indicates in intent ions to resolve the situation formally without a confrontation, He put his Times down carefully on his lap and turned his fine, lean face towards the man, smilin g the shy, apologetic smile. These actions indicated his intensions, but what he failed to realize were the signs Joes father were giving him. As described, Joes f ather was a large man, reading the Sunday comics, indicating his lack of intelle ctual anomalies, his first response to Larrys mother was You go right ahead Joethro w all you want. This is a public sandbox. By this Morton should have sent that th is man was an uneducated, blue color worker, with strong feelings toward equalit y and fair treatment. The proximity of the argument arouse to the confrontation of family honor when Joes father continuously cut Morton off when he was talking. Mortons response indicated that he was submissive and did not want to deal with the man any longer, feeling the need to avoid any further arguments. What he fai led to realize was that in this process he not only dishonored his wife, and chi ld, but his fatherly role within the family. These actions indicate that he was unable to deal with those he feels subjected to. Mortons actions of leaving the park without further confrontation with Joes father allowed him to realize that he was far from become the father that he should be . As the family left the park his wife began to asses the situation and responde d to his actions by arguing the reasoning behind his actions. At this moment his feelings about how he dealt with the situation were as unappealing to himself a s they were to his wife, which I why he continuously responded with it wouldnt hav e proved anything. He knew himself that he could have at lease said what he neede d to say, but because he had not, his only reaction was asses the possible react ions to justify his own actions. Obviously his wife felt offended that her husba nd had not argued with Joes father about how he responded to her, but deep down, her emotions revolved around the way her husband had addressed the situation. Th is in all coerced her, to increasingly stress to Morton about he significance of having Larry fight his own fights. Mortons response was an emotional crawl of di sappointment, as he realized that his parental actions showed Larry not only to

run from a fight, to avoid physical contact, but to stay silent and go on withou t passing on his own views about the argument. In all frustration, with his wif e pestering him about what he had done, he yelled at her saying, Cant you keep him quiet, for Petes Sake? She replied that she was trying to, and through his anger he responded by saying that he would if she couldnt, in return, shocked and appal led she asked, indeedyou and who else? These words indicated that his father role f igure was inept, not understanding the childs emotions, implying that his time ar ound the child was short, lacking a sense of relationship with the child. He lea rned that he lacked depth in his fatherly role, as he could not understand or re spond to the actions of his spouse and child without hurting them. Morton would be deemed by society as a white collared ideologist. His views focu ses on what he feels is right and wrong based on what he has learned. Like many of the ideologists he feels neglected to focus on the reverse outcomes of his ac tions, those of which lead to the periscope thinking of self consciousness. He w as identified as a university professor, and a constant working one at that, whi ch indicates his conceited stature, placing his own stature above others based o n level of education. What he lacks though was the social skills, imminent ways to deal with those who thought differently that he does, as the world is diverse with numerous ideologies. Society would define his social economic class as a h igh ended paper turner, with a deck job, having an increased salary with minimal manual labor. Compared to those of blue collared workers, his ideas would focus more on the analytical solution, to where as the blue collared would focus on d ominate control. These differences should have been compensated before the confr ontation lead to a physical altercation, as he was the more educated man. His ab sence in his family also brought about his negligence in relationship with his s on, which proved to be almost none at all. His understand of his son was seen as work as he stated if you cant discipline this child, I will, again taking what he learned to asses the situation. He lacks the deep thinking process of which take s into consideration the thoughts for others, responsively not think outside the box. Within the story Joes father exercised the power over Morton, as he utilized phys ical attributes to overcome the matter. The difference in power was cause by the innate characteristics of Morton and Joes father. Morton being a smaller, thinne r, educated man, while Joes father being a big, husky, uneducated man, indicated the differing backgrounds of the characters; Joe being a man from the manual lab or community, who in the 1980s most likely fought for unionism, and equality with in all aspects of life, whereas Morton an educated professor at a university dea lt mainly with the issues of life that perspired to that of luxury and enjoyment . These effects innately confronts a controversy, as the two classes collide and ideas are not settled, the feud revolves around not on the comprehension of rig ht and wrong, but of the comfort of sustain their known ideologies. Thought the confrontation of the differing classes crashed, no change in the balance of powe r is made, Joes father initiated the dominate role where as Morton finished it wi th a passive role. Morton was a man that lacked the discernment of his actions and ideologies. His personality purely defined his social and comprehensive moral stature as he comm enced through the argument. He neglected his father role as he failed to develop a solid relationship with neither his son nor wife, while substantially decreas ing his social stature in relevance to dealing with those whom enact with differ ent ideologies. These actions prove and illustrate the clash between Morton and those around him, inherently showing his own self conception of the morality whi ch binds life to social structure. As he is unable to justify his own actions, h e leads himself to the justification of the reaction, assessing his own miscondu ct, or failure to succeed, in punishment to those around him.