How would you contrast Nick's relationship with his father to his relationship with his young son in "Fathers and Sons"?(It seems that there is a...

While Nick Adams drives along the highway as the day
darkens, Hemingway writes that he

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was all through thinking about his father.  The
end of the day never made him think of
him.

Nonetheless, the memory
of Nick's father returns to him in the fall when he travels to hunt quail where,
suddenly, as he is in a deserted orchard or field, the memory of his hunting outings
with this father strike him.  At the same time, Nick recalls when he lost the rifle that
his father had given him and he was whipped for losing it.  Afterwards, in his anger at
being punished, Nick considered killing his father.  However, once the anger was "out of
him," he felt sick about thinking such thoughts.

It seems,
therefore, that Nick has ambivalent feelings about his father. Perhaps, like his father,
he is both "cruel and abused" emotionally.  At any rate, the only positive emotion seems
to be Nick's detached admiration for his father's eyesight and shooting skill, detached
because even this admiration is somewhat negated as he tells his son, "He was always
disappointed in the way I shot." However, this is the only negative statement that Nick
makes when his young so asks about his grandfather. Instead, he commiserates with his
son that they should, indeed, visit his father's tomb, and encourages his son in the
continuation of family.  His act of fatherly love, inspired by the beauty of nature and
the positive memories of his father, indicate his paternal love for his sensitive
son.