The father in Ethan Coen's short story, "The Boys", is a man dealing with serious depression. The conflicts in his life have consumed him and he has lost control, a position that his desperately craves. At the midpoint of his years and stranded in a no-man's-land between his conscience and his trying boys, the father struggles to regain the upper hand on his routine called life. Passages throughout the story reveal the fathers mindset and develop his character into a man on the verge of an epiphany or perhaps a nervous breakdown. Either he will remain the doer of mind-numbing chores and pointless requests of his boys or he will admirably regain command in a life that was his to begin with
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