Powder by Tobias Wolff

Want to read the rest of this paper? Join Essayworld today to view this entire essay and over 50,000 other term papers

extra night and leave when the roads get better but the father’s existence in his family depends on whether or not he gets his son home on that exact day. Not only is the snow keeping them from getting home, it’s keeping the father from being a part of his family and having his son’s trust. The snow then symbolizes danger when the father decides to drive through it, even though the state trooper said it was forbidden. The snow’s significance changes throughout the story. First it is a friend to the father, giving his father a good excuse to be with his son, then becomes evil, keeping them from getting home, and then becomes a friend again. Although the snow is dangerous to drive through, the fact that the father is able to do so impresses the son. “He was a great driver,” the son thought of his father as they drove through the fresh snow. The last line in the story is the son telling the reader “if you haven’t driven fresh powder, you haven’t driven” (1064). It is clear that the ...

Get instant access to over 50,000 essays. Write better papers. Get better grades. Already a member? Login

CITE THIS PAGE: