Atwood and Fraser comparison

Margaret Atwood writes “My father’s house has the tension and pace of a detective novel except that the detective is part of the narrator’s self and so is the murder victim.” After reading the memoir “My Fathers House” by Sylvia Fraser, the connection between the two became quite clear. Throughout “My Fathers House,” Sylvia splits herself into two individuals. Her adult self plays the detective, and her childhood self, who plays the victim. The foggy memory of being the victim of rape and incest starts to resurface while her adult self tries to unsolve this mystery. Sylivia feels she owes it to her childhood self to unravel this memory and confront it, in hopes of finding the strength in her to forgive and feel a sense of closure. To dig up a suppressed memory so deep must be extremely overwhelming and powerful and I truly could not imagine going through such an extreme event, especially when you realize your father played the criminal.