Wednesday, May 28, 2008

She's Come Undone Post #3

"Grandma's praying dropped off and I could tell she saw him, too. If Grandma's God was real, why wasn't Daddy my dead parent(140)?"

"Daddy wouldn't leave. He was whispering at my face with sweet liquor breath. 'I can understand what you're going through...not the time or the place...you don't know the whole...'
'Shut up! Shut up! Shut up(141)!'

Since the last time I posted,I found out a lot about Dolores. She has now just eaten away at her pain. Every bite of food she takes I believe she is eating because of everything that is going on in her life. Her mom wanted for her to go to college, and they finally found one out of (17?) that accepted her. Because she got accepted, they needed for Dolores to take a physical. She was fat, she didn't want a physical and she didn't want to go to college either. To make her go get her physical, her mom had to cut the cord to her TV and said she would get it fixed once she had got the physical done. Dolores eventually caves in, and goes to get her physical just so she can have her TV back. The doctor weighs her at 257 pounds! obsurd! Later on...her mother gets hit by a truck. The quotes from above are at her mothers funeral. Her dad walks in and she clearly did not want him to be there because he abanded her... she blames him for all the bad thats happend--ie: being obese, getting raped, mother getting killed. She clearly needs counciling... her dad was a jerk as he left...
"a car jerked out of the parkhing lot, Daddy at the wheel. He drove past us, braked, backed up. He was crying. ' I'm no saint,' he called out to Father Duptulski. 'But I never,ever deserved--' He turned his eyes to me. ' You get yourself some help!' he screamed. 'Or I'll get it for you!'
'You stay the f*** away from me!' I screamed back. The car bucked and sped away(141). "
Wow. How dare he! After all he has put her through, never been there for her. And he blames his daughter and tells her to go get some help. I really don't like him now! I just can not believe him!

1 comment:

Shelbi K. said...

Wow! This book sounds so interesting to me. I am really close to a person who was abandoned by one of his parents also and I wonder if I read this book if I will be able to understand all of his anger a little better. From the way you talk, this book really talks about the stuff that a lot of people have been through including rape, obesity, and losing loved ones. I am really interested to hear what happens next!