He says, this son is not so much angry that the other has come home as he is angry that his parents are so happy about it. "This dutiful son and he is wonderfully dutiful forgets for a moment that he has never had to know filth or despair, fear or self-loathing," Paul writes. I encourage all of our listeners to go and read and listen to the whole thing.

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