Nguyen Ngoc Tu is a talent woman writer. Works by Nguyen Ngoc Tu attract a lot of readers whether they contain sadness or intense, which is the result of her unique way to build the characters. One of the motifs of characters appearing in stories by this talent writer is the fathers. When studying the short story "Canh dong bat tan" the authors found that the figure of father in it appeared again and again and became an inconsolable obsession. Those fathers were willing to sacrify, including even losing love and happiness and receiving loneliness and helplessness so that they were able to fulfill the obligation of father. They also tried their best to struggle with hardship in life, desiring a better life. The fathers in works by Nguyen Ngoc Tu never give up their hope, they always cherish belief for life.