Tiny Smiling Daddy by Mary Gaitskill
I think, the story includes very strange and complicated relations between father (Stew)and his daughter(Kitty). Both of them are within a visible conflict. Their behaviour and characteristic features are completely different and hence they can’t find any mutual point between themselves to share their emotions. When Kitty was small, they could find a way like small cute games to communicate but after a few years, kitty became teenager and her interests had changed so their relations became broken down. Besides, when I observed Stew’s father, I recognized the same situation between themselves. I think, Stew’s experiences show that, he is unknowing about family care because hi didn’t see any interest from his father. In addition, Kitty has a rebellious character, so lack of interest of his father, directs her to strange habits. For all that, Stew carries on his routine life unaware of her daughter.
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
Dylan in 1963
I think, the story drew a comparison between early modern times(1960-1970) and the contemporary times. Both of them include same social problems in terms of youth culture. Teenagers meet with same conditions and they try to deal with environmental issues. As Joyce Carol Oates has noted, the young generations feel bound to adopt their characteristics into popular trends and recognaziably, as author’s mentioned metaphorically, they may find themselves in a unknown way. In this situation, they realize their all of daily problems and failures. The other remarkable point is that, in that times, relations have been started to construct the basis of nowadays family relations because I observed same problems in disconnections of family relations such as attitudes of Connie’s to her mother.
A rose for Emily
In this story , Miss Emily had has deeply emotional depression. She ignores to go outside or being social because of her strong relations with past. So, she constructs a different world for herself but at last, outside world has starting to affect her own personal world in many kind of materalistic ways such as her neighbours interferences.
