never disobeyed your orders” (v. 29). Never? He was convinced of his own goodness, and this assurance made improvement impossible. Deep down inside, he may even have wished he could blow it like his younger brother did and get away with it. No one had said his little brother was with prostitutes, and yet the elder son accused, “This son of yours who has squandered your property with prostitutes.” This may be an unconscious confession of the older brother’s voyeurism. Too, he complained that no party