Professor of Smells

Imagine if your husband went to go gamble and he lost all of his money and didn’t tell you. In the story “Professor of Smells” by Richard Cohen there was a family that was doing just that without anyone knowing but the Husband. With the people in the family not knowing it was going on. If you would compare that to your family or your life that would be awful and irresponsible. Even though this story is realistic there are some similarities not only between characters and I but it can also be related to things going on in the book and life.

In the book “Professor of Smells” the main character Chung and I are alike but also different in our own ways. An example would be that we both like to gamble, but I just do it for fun and not for money. However he should tell his wife about the money that’s missing. Chung doesn’t want to let his family know that the money is missing and not getting any money to bring home. If my father or husband I would feel divested if I would find out before he would tell me. On the other hand we are both different and same in our ways. One important way were different is that I would tell family and people if something like this would happen and he didn’t yet. Before this gets out of hand Chung should tell his family.

Although Chung and I have similarities in the story we are very different, even though some people do this today we should learn just talk to our family if things like this or anything bad would happen. In our world today people still gamble and sometimes it gets out of hand and then people wouldn’t like to share what happened to family. Even though the short story is the same it teaches you what to do and what not to do. This is just not smart telling your family what happened. So you can see that these to gambling is almost the same but gambling teaches you a lesson that is, you can lose or win and if you don’t win you can’t just ask for money back.

In conclusion, while I can relate myself to the main character and the story is realistic because they describe about. If you would have to compare your life to Chung you would realize that you would have to help you family not keep secrets. Richard Cohen wrote this book and he made a statement about that if you’re in this position you should do the right thing and not steal from wife and tell your family if things didn’t go right anything anytime.