Tone is the attitude of a writer toward a subject the author is writing about. The tone of “Death Of The Father II” can be classified as being depressing, careless, and detached. The word choice Charles Bukowski uses in his story is accessible words to showed he cared very little about writing more complex sentences. Bukowski expressed depressing and careless tones in the beginning of the story, when he was watering the flowers and had gave the neighbors all of his parents belongings in the house. Finally, he expressed detachment in the story by showing how he barely new any of the neighbors and at the end of the story when he was at the house all alone and watering the roses.
After the funeral, the tone of depressing is shown when Henry was watering the shrubbery. When he was finished, the neighbors started to come out of their houses. While he is speaking to the neighbors, one of them told him that he looked like his father, he simply replied with yes, even though him and his father were never
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The author use this tone by him mentioning that Henry was unknown to the neighbors. When the neighbors were speaking to him he did not use dialogue tag, making the reader to not know who he was speaking to. Even though Henry had barely knew them he still let them into the house by leaving the door ajar. When the first of the neighbors asked about the painting of the windmill, he simply gave them the painting without giving a second thought. Another way to show that Henry was detached was when he told all of the neighbors if they seen a picture then they could take it. When the neighbors finally start to leave, Henry walked outside and after locking the garage, two boys skated by and one of the boys told the other that Henrys’ father died. After the two boys left, he turn on the faucet and started to water the roses, showing that he no longer had to remember all of the bad experiences he had in the