In the story father and son for whom do you feel the most sympathy. This story is set in Northern Ireland about a father and son whose mother and wife have recently died. The son temporarily moves to London but his father brings him back after what appears to be drug problems. The father and son do not get along, the father tries to make his son respect but does not succeed. In the end the son is killed and the story just sits there, leaving us to suspect who killed him. The son's relationship with his father is very bad. At the beginning of the story, we see that he avoids talking to his father by pretending to be asleep. “I will sleep for him.” The son is angry with his father for taking him away from London. During his son's time in London he had drug problems, it's almost as if he blames his father for his mother's death. The son rejects, ignores and excludes this father. The son gives the simplest and quickest answers to his father so that he doesn't have to talk to him. He is very secretive towards his father. We learn that the s...