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Essay about "Tiny, Smiling Daddy" "Tiny, Smiling Daddy" is a pretty modern text; it was published in 1997, and written by Mary Gaitskill. It is a short story, in which we mostly hear about a man named Stew, and his daughter Kitty. The text is taking focus on their intern relationship, including all of their problems. The greatest problem between them is the fathers missing ability to understand his daughters' way of living "She knew how ashamed he had been when, at sixteen, she announced that she was lesbian" (page2, 37). Kittys mother, Marsha, is also taking part in this story, but she does not pay the biggest attention to what is going on, between her husband and daughter. Kitty is an adult woman; she lives a girl named George in an apartment near Detroit. She moved away from home, when she was a teenager, because she told her parents, that she was a lesbian, and they, especially her father, could not deal with that fact. Kitty has earlier in her life, while she still lived at home with her parents, run away, but the police found her, and Marsha made them put her in a mental hospital. I think Marsha wants the police to help her get rid of Kitty; it is an easy way for Marsha to forget all the problems Kitty has caused them. Besides it is a way for Marsha to pass on the responsibility to someone else "..put her in a mental hospital so psychiatrists could observe her..." (page4, 98) The father obvious still carry the love for his offspring, because he is responsible for getting Kitty out of the hospital, even though she has made him suffer, he does not want to see her in such a place.
Approximate Word count = 936
Approximate Pages = 3.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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