Is there a metaphor for a father-son relationship in the short story, "The Circular Ruin"?

A father-son relationship is depicted in "The Circular
Ruin" on two levels. The first is the dreamer's efforts to realize his greatest dream,
which is the act of creation of an independent sensate life from his own inner being,
which can be viewed as a metaphor for the desire of males to
procreate.

The dreamer spends great lengths of time
dedicated and devoted to nothing other than the realization of dreaming every part of
the creation's body from the heart outward to every individual hair. His dream labors
continue as he instructs the being in how to do and how to be. This most definitely can
be seen as a metaphor for a high model of a father-son
relationship.

The second level is that when the dreamer's
work is done and his creation, his dream, has initiated an independent existance, he
disovers by his ability to walk into the fire of the fire god's temple that he too is
the dream of another individual with the same immortal power of being impervious to
fire. One infers that the first dreamer of the second dreamer was as tender and loving
as the dreamer himself was, since he too imparted the final gift of the removal of all
memory of the creation and instruction so that there would be no feeling of humiliation
or strangeness.

The idea of a prior generation of dreamer
reinforces the metaphor of the father-son relationship: it is the right model. Further,
it is a lasting and true model because, of course, if there were two, there must surely
have been others leading up to the two dreamers.