Theme Of Dreams Begin Responsibilities

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In “Dreams Begin Responsibilities” Delmore Schwartz, work with family, selfishness and pride. He does this through the mother, the father and waves. Delmore Schwartz is saying that both the mother and the father wants to get marry for other reasons than love.
The mother is mostly about having a family. the father met the mother’s relatives, when he gave them a visit. “My father arrives at my mother’s house…My aunt, my mother’s younger sister answers the loud bell…”. Furthermore, she wants to have her own children, after she saw the kids with their mothers. “She notices the children digging in the wet sand and the bathing costumes of the girls who are her own age (Schwartz 513). Moreover, the mother could not wait to get marry and have her own family. “”It’s all I’ve wanted from the first time I saw you,””. Having a family is what represent the mother the most.
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He just wants to marry the mother, so that he could be like the people he look up to. “But He reassures himself by thinking of the big men he admires who are married:” He did not want the mother to see the fortune-teller because he did not want the truth to be reveal. “They have passed a fortune-teller’s booth and my mother wishes to go in, but my father does not (Schwartz 515). He knew he wasn’t truly in love with the mother it still did not stop him from marrying her. “They both are not yet engaged and he is not yet sure that he loves my mother” (Schwartz 512). The father like to do things that benefits only

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