looking for jason- workshop

Looking for Jason is a story of a man searching for his missing son. It is an incredibly emotional situation that has great potential, but avoids the emotional aspect. The story revolves around a man who goes to the outskirts of town to the woods to search for his son, then his reluctance to leave without him. The story mentions the man’s dead wife, and his son’s absence but it seems cold and devoid of heart. Even though I intellectually know the stakes and dilemma the man must be in, he doesn’t allow the reader to feel the stakes. This could be because we never see him express emotion. He seems to be angry in the beginning when he yells at the kids by the levee, but that could just be because they aren’t listening to him, and not out of concern for his son. The scene with him telling stories to Cassie is a great scene and can give a great insight into the character, but even that seems a little cold. Like he wants to express regret and pain, but can’t. And if that is who the character is, unfeeling, that could be a very interesting story, but then the reader needs to see the emotion he won’t show other characters, or admit to himself.