Wednesday, April 1, 2009
My Father's House
My Father's house does have a feel of a detective's novel, just like Margret Atwood said. Sylvia is trying to figure out why she feels the way she does. It is as if she had locked up all the real memories and made them into dreams that seemed to resemble fantasies. Her dreams, where like her actually descriptive thoughts of what she felt towards her father and the events of abuse. It is as if she is detecting the crime that had happened to her, she was the victim, but as the detective. No one else would be able to figure it out but her, she was there and experienced the abuse, Sylvia also needed to figure it out for her own sanity. Since she had locked up her memories of the past she had to think hard about her encounters with her father and try and remember things like exact details, and her feelings. It was almost like she had ton investigate her own mind, and re-enact the past, so she could truly solve the crime.
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I agree that Fraser needed to discover this other part of her. She was too troubled and confused by her nightmares and haunting dreams. It needed to be discovered in order to face the events and begin her healing process. It is sad that she could not understand the vivid subconscious manifestations as well as physical convulsing until so many years later.
ReplyDeleteI agree on the novel having a very detective feel to it. As I read Fraser's memoir, I found it to have a bit of mystery as she continued through her venture to figure out her past experience. Her dreams had to piece together her reality, and literally solve what’s been eating her inside for so many years.
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