Relationsips with Fathers The narrator of My Papa’s Waltz Theodore Roethke discusses a very heartbreaking and distressful situation when looking back at his childhood remembering a scene (perhaps one frequently enacted) where he and his drunken father waltz wildly through the house. An interpretation of “My Papa’s Waltz” takes into account the complexity of what the speaker feels that are bought about by the father. A dance is supposed to bring two people …showed first 75 words of 969 total…

…showed last 75 words of 969 total…father. Thank God I was blessed with a devoted and caring dad who was like my best friend. Although I got to see very little of him as he was always away on business trips he was always there for me at times of need and when I see and hear things other people have to face, I see my father with a different eye and learn to appreciate and cherish the bond we share.