Every Little Hurricane: What's a party?

Throughout this story, Victor is the main character and is a nine year old boy. Throughout the whole story (told in third person), Victor is young and in fear but seems to have an extremely mature and experienced outlook on life. However, it's unfortunate that he, as such a young boy, is forced to see situations such as his uncles beating each other bloody or his parents being drunk and passed out. Clearly the hurricane idea is a metaphor for the struggles of their lives. Each person is a storm cloud caused by their painful memories and emotions, and when they all come together in one place, the "high-pressure and low-pressure fronts" (2) cause a large scale storm. However, everyone at the party ignores it, as if they have been dealing with these storms forever. They all drink and fight and mess around without a shame or a care in the world because they want to feel something else besides the pain of their past. The same idea comes about in A Drug Called Tradition in which the boys attempt escape their world and find "a better world" (14) by using drugs. However, in their situation, there is a realization that they cannot escape the past or their memories because "the past (and) the future, all of it is wrapped up in the now" (22). Both stories show people attempting to escape their past and their lives by drinking till their sick, or taking trippy drugs to see something new. Doesn't sound like a party to me