He even suggests that his father leave and go hunting instead of watching him dying. "You don't have to stay here with me, papa, if it bothers you." said Schatz. Additionally, he refused to let anyone come into his room saying " You can't come in, you mustn't get what I have." He said this out of worries for the health of the rest of the family members, knowing that by doing so will jeopardize his comfortable waiting moments for death as he now has to face the decease completely alone. .

             At the conclusion of the story, the narrator/father unveils what readers have missed. That is, the Celsius and Fahrenheit confusion is merely a superficial reason for Schatz's transition of attitudes from initial response to death, to his macho and stoic reaction afterwards, which is an inadequate explanation to the story's main problem. The underlying factor for Schatz's changeover throughout the story can in fact be attributed to the miscommunication between him and his father. In other words, Schatz's taciturn endurance, and the father's blindness in understanding the son's fear. .

             Obviously, there seems to be an invisible wall between the father and the son. Interestingly, the author uses the first-person narrator in the story because by using this mechanism, the father cannot read the minds of his own son and the readers are impelled to see everything via the eyes of the father. This limited point of view functions as a chief medium for the ineffectual communication of father and son, enabling the readers to have doubts over the exaggerated bravery of a little boy until the point when the father tells the boy that he is not going to die. Upon closer examination of dialogues however, readers will see the multiple levels of misunderstanding inherent in their conversation.

             One example is when the father asks Schatz why he does not try to sleep. Schatz said "You don't have to stay in here with me, papa, if it bothers you.