(urth) Short Story 14: Paul's Treehouse

[Marc Aramini]

--- On Sat, 4/7/12, Darth Ed <darthed77 at gmail.com> wrote:
. I think Wolfe identifies with the adults more
> than Paul here.
> 

He is just showing how ridiculous and separated from their son they are - there is nothing positive about Morris that he does not squish - wanting to reassure his son that he isn't really going to cut down the tree, then stopping himself from saying that.  He's an ass, and we are supposed to see that.