"Through the Tunnel" by Doris Lessing is a short story about a young boy named Jerry and his "passing through' to the adolescent phase. He and his mother are seen in a different place for they were on a holiday.
Through the whole story, we find no mention of the father except that the mother is a widow. So, most probably the father may have been dead for a long time. So, it is unclear to know or even learn of what his relationship with his father may be like. He didn't seem to share to much of emotional connection with his mother but that is not to say that he does with his father. The readers are not privy to the father figure for he had been dead when the story began.
