In the story “Under the Influence,” Scott Russell Sanders. He tell you in detail about his father’s excessive abuse of alcohol, and the transformation that transpired. However, as he grown older he realized his father didn’t only have impact his mother, his sister and his brother, but also how it is affected his own relationship with his own children as well. He describe his father’s alcoholism problem while growing up barbaric and dark. Since he realize the neglection he felt during those times of his childhood. He started to notice pattern with his passion of his work life. He became so busy to point where he never was at home and wasn’t able to spend time with his wife and children. After I read Sanders story you tend to notice the metaphors