Re-examine All That You Have Experienced, Dismiss What You Don't Like: An Intoxicated Interpretation of Walt Whitman in "Because My Father Always Said He Was The Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play 'The Star-Spangled Banner' At Woodstock"

This story is, again, narrated by Victor. Also having repeated presence is his drunk father. I'm just going to start off saying, as I look at the assignment, that I really don't want to write them in this order, not because of teen angst, but if I do it'll come out even worse than it will now. I'm tired. Basically, his father continuously says "That's how it is," or something of that degree, even though he hasn't the slightest idea what's real and what's fake. Most of the time he's in a drunken stupor, and even when he isn't, he just ignores what he doesn't like, since "all you have to do is change the memories" (34). There's no way he was actually there when Jimi Hendrix was playing. This narrator is as unreliable as a drunk, overly-philosophical Holden Caulfield. One little piece of evidence is that he claimed to be in the "dark" (31) while watching him. He must have meant figuratively, as it was around midday when this happened. Unfortunately, Victor too desperately feels the need to make his father happy, which in this case is to go along with his fantasy, and serves no real purpose other than clarifying the father's unreliability.