Her Daughter's Wouldn't Eat

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Introduction: In the short short story “Her daughters wouldn’t eat” by Jim Crase, we get introduced to a theme about child-upbringing and conflicts in the home. The author shows us this theme, by starting a discussion about upbringing. This short short story is about a mother who can’t make her daughters eat. She tries to bribe them, threat them and give them extra duties around the house, but it doesn’t help at all. Jim tells us, that the mother fears the daughters, more than they fear her. Analysis: The story is written with a third-person, omniscient narrator, who has no relation to the characters in the story. The Narrator gives us a description of the mother and her problem with the daughters. The text doesn’t describe or indicate a specific social environment. The mother is the main character and she is both static and flat, because she doesn’t go through a sincere development. But she goes through a kind of development at the last meal she makes for her daughters. She makes a pizza with an angry face on, and she used to make the food with happy faces. The characters aren’t described in the story. We don’t know anything about them, besides that the minor characters, the daughters, won’t eat and the protagonist, the mother, is trying really hard to make them eat. The initial situation is that the mother is trying to deal with the problem, and find a way to make them eat. That situation continues the whole story, until the final situation, where the mother nearly gives up on the girls, but then they eat every crumb of the pizza, and the narrator tells us that they were having good fun eating their mother’s anger. The story has an introduction, it is chronologically organized and It’s a closed and, in some way, predictable ending. The language is easy to read and understand, and the title “Her daughters wouldn’t eat” gives us a hint to what the story is

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