Photograph of My Father in His Twenty-Second Year

Photograph of My Father in His Twenty-Second Year by Raymond Carver is about a son looking at a picture of his father when his father was 22years old. The son talks about how his dad is leaning against his old truck. He describes how his dad is dressed and how he is looking "bold"while holding a beer in one hand and fish in the other. The son is comparing himself to his dad. How they both can't hold their liquor and he doesn't know where to go to find the fish. Also the narrator talks about how he loves his dad but dosent know how to thank him. I think that the narrator talks the way he does in the poem becasue that how a lot of boys feel like, that whole "male thing", how they dont show their feelings very much. Again the narrator does a good job with really showing the father and son in a sense of bonding even though the narrator is looking at a picture. But all boys and girls do the same thing when we look at old pictures of our parents we can kind of see ourselves in them.