In Dreams Begin Responsibilities

I think this short story was about the narrators problems with his parents. I think that it is obvious that the relationship between his mother and his father was uneasy. I didn't really realize this until the end of the story, when i was reading through it i didn't take note that at the beginning of the story he says: I feel as if i were in a moving picture theater" which was him basically saying i wasn't really in a movie theater but it felt like it. So as i went on reading i thought that he was actually in a movie theater watching a movie of his parents beginnings. This was sort of boggling my mind and i knew something was weird how he kept referring to the actor and actress as his parents. At the end of the story he wakes up from his sleep, which tells the reader that it was a dream.

When the narrator keeps yelling at the "screen" in his dream, you know that there is something that isn't right, however everything in the "movie" seems to be going fine. I think that the photograph part was foreshadowing their marriage. It starts out great, during the beginning of the shots, but then quickly gets bad. The photographer keeps dragging on the photo shoot, wanting a better picture each time. This is like how their marriage will be, its great in the beginning, everyone is happy and in love, but very quickly gets sour and bad. Same goes for the fortune-teller part. I think that shows the anger that will quickly appear between them. The mother wants to go in and get her fortune and the father doesn't want to be in there, so they begin to fight. All the while the son who is "watching the movie in the theater" is yelling at it, telling them not to get married it will only get bad, basically.

I think it was well written and has a good topic. When the father proposed to the mother, the son was going crazy yelling trying to get them to not go through with it, that it will only lead to bad things. Such as scandals, hatred, and two kids one of which is him, who have crazy personalities or characters.