In "Portrait of an Invisible Man", Paul Auster uses his experiences with his own father in a way that, it would be easy for the average person to relate to. He uses events that are common events that have happened to most people. He uses events that not only effected him in a certain way, but also would effect most people. The essay is filled with his recollections of his father, and what he finds out about him when his is forced to clean out his house. Paul finds many pictures that let him have a better look into his father's life. He also comes across newspaper articles, which tell him a dark story from his father's past. The way that Paul Auster writes these experiences down, allows the reader to relate them to their own experiences. This, in turn, makes the essay more enjoyable, and more effective.
             In Auster's story, he talks often about how his father treated him, and how he showed his emotions towards him. He tells how his father never really told him that he loved him, or showed many emotions to him. He was merely there to provide for him, and to be a role model of a hard working man. Auster once says, "You never stop hungering for your father's love, even after you are grown up." (61). Paul knew that his father loved him, even though he did not hear his father say it often, if ever. Throughout his whole life he hungered for his father to demonstrate this to him, up until the time of his death, and even after. His father never showed him this emotion, even though Paul
             knew he felt that way, he still hungered for him to say it, and still does.
             When I read that sentence, my mind went immediately went to my father, and what I had observed of him at my grandfather's funeral. In all my experiences with my father and my grandfather, I can not remember a time where I saw either of them show emotion between them. When they were together they acted as businessmen; they tal...