Question

2. Why does the narrator try to build
up a relationship
with his son from how he was when small ?​

Answer 1

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They live like strangers in the same house. Complete silence surrounds them when they are each other's presence. That's why he says that he knows nothing of his son. He wants to build up the same kind of relationship as he used to have when his son was a little child.

Answer 2

Answer:

They live like strangers in the same house. Complete silence surrounds them when they are each other's presence. That's why he says that he knows nothing of his son. ... He wants to build up the same kind of relationship as he used to have when his son was a little child.