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Sunday in the Park

The text ”Sunday in the Park” mainly deals with the concerns of marriage, the individual roles of the partners in the relationship, and how you can be together for a long time, without noticing that some of the vital values are missing, from the person you love.
I believe the characters in this text are victims of this very thing, where the mother realizes that her husband can't defend her in the way that she wants him to. She probably married him to feel safe and secure in a way, possibly financially since you have no knowledge of her actually having a job herself. In the park however, she wants her husband, Morton, to stand up for her and her son, even though she isn't a supporter of violence and knows that it'll end up with Morton getting hurt quite badly if he does stand up for them. As a result, she takes on the role of the family “guardian” since her husband proves too weak for it. You can see that in this last bit of the story:
“But her voice stopped him. She was shocked to hear it, thin and cold and penetrating with contempt. “Indeed?” she heard herself say. “You and who else?” (P. 2, lines 139-141)”
This shows how she basically mimics the menacing man in the park, who she more or less must see as a “real man,” compared to husband at least.
Those two men seem like a clash between two social standings/classes, Morton being a rather smart middle class guy and the other man probably working class with a not-so-long education.
I say this mainly because you hear that Morton is reading “The Times” which is a serious magazine that deals with issues such as politics, world news and health. We're told that the other man:
“...held the Sunday comics close to his face.” (P. 1, lines 31-32).
First of all that tells us that he is reading the comics and which could imply that he only reads the comics (which may or may not be true, he could in fact be reading the whole thing) because the other stuff in it simply doesn't interest him or it's too hard for him to read it. The other point being that he held it close to his face, which may imply that he got a hard time actually deciphering the words. Also the other man relies on his physical strength to solve the whole incident, while Morton actually tries to be diplomatic about it. All in all these two characters seems to oppositions of each other, except that they both act rather aggressively when the conflict steps up which also affects the children, who end up rather clueless seeing their parents act like that. The children start out being rather peaceful until the other kid throws sand at Morton's kid, Larry, and later hitting him. Even though the other kid got a violent nature, he gets surprised when his dad begins menacing with Morton and his wife. Perhaps this reaction comes because he looks up to his dad, and gets told that no one should tell him what to do, but he's never actually seen his father “in action.”
All in all the other man seems rather bored while down in the park with his son, not really caring about what's happening, but as soon as a chance arises to get some action into the picture, showing how strong he is, he's all in for it, not caring about about that kids are present at all. This could also reflect why the kid throws sand at Larry, if that's the kind of everyday behavior he is witnessing. From what I've read, the man could easily be hitting his girlfriend/wife at home.
The story treats all kinds of different problems – violence, behavior and as mentioned earlier rela-tionship. In the end, Morton really tries to convince himself that he did the right thing by walking out on that fight, which is shown when he tries to get the confirmation of his wife, but she seems reluctant to confirm it. She wants to believe it as well, even though deep inside she thinks it was a cowardly act, and that he should've stood up for her. Perhaps she's in reality looking for someone completely different than Morton, but she tries tells herself she's more into well educated guys who tries to be civil about things, than men who are strong and bold. A short story about self denial and true feelings for people you thought you knew.

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