In the year 2010, Dagoberto Gilb's short story, "Uncle Rock," was published in The New Yorker. In the story we meet a little boy named Erick. Erick's mother is a bit flighty and exposes Erick to a lot of different men. The story shows Erick and every other young guy needs a permanent father figure in his life. Not only is Erick missing a father figure to look up to, he is also missing a mother that truly cares about him and puts his needs before her own selfish needs. The story starts in medias res which is a normal characteristic for short stories. Beside that the story is told by a third person narrator, but angled from Erick's point of view, also called a personal angel. It's always about how Erick feels about the men that his mother brings home, and how he feels about his mother. In a way it feels like we are inside Erick's head. You can say that the story is divided in three passages with the three different men that his mother brings home. We don't really get any information about the first man, the restaurant host, other than the mother was supposed to marry him. Then there is the engineer with a lot of money and a big house and then there is the last one, Roque. We don't really know anything about him either, except from the fact the he seems to be the one carrying the most for Erick. The fact that there is so much difference between the men that she is with says something about the environment that they are in. The first 2 guys seem to have wealthy jobs, whereas Roque doesn't have all that, but it seems like he has a lot more love for Erick's mother. In the description of the 3 men it's obvious that the story is told from Erick's point of view, because he doesn't have any positive things to say about any of the men, because he can't let himself get close to any of them, because he knows that his mother is going to replace them, and also because he has tried several times, and know that the men only want his mother, and don't ca