nd touch those rough hands. His father's hands, in fact, represent all his father's hard work and sacrifice for his family. These hands not only built the fires to drive out the cold, but also polished his son's shoes and performed household chores. When he was building the fires on those cold and dry mornings, readers can see and hear his 'cracked hands' cracking the logs and breaking the cold. The room was then transformed from dark and cold to bright and warm. The smell of the fires' blaze also resembles the love burning like a fire within the father. By creating a warm environment, it would seem like the room was comfortable. However, in the second stanza, there is a visible mismatch that readers can hardly miss. In fact, "those warm rooms" (7) which are filled with "chronic angers" (9) turns out to be something they do not expect. The fact that "chronic angers" are introduced into the calm scene in which the father makes the house warm seems to suggest a dysfunctional father- son relationship, or else it may have a connection with the father's painful hands. However, the speaker does not offer any further information about the source and the causes of the anger, and the readers are left wondering what the anger is. It is for sure that the anger i
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