The story “Get Up and Go” is the story of the relationship between a father and son, on whose behalf the narrator-author speaks. Divided into relatively short twenty-two chapters, it honestly talks about filial feelings, sincere and spontaneous, moving from adoration to pity, from deep devotion to duty, from sincere love to condescension and even anger. The happily established fate of the son-writer comes into constant conflict with the fate of his father-prisoner, father-exile, who does not have a decent and permanent place of residence.