Tiny Smiling Daddy Character Overview

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Enormously Aggravated Father The most difficult time in a child’s relationship with her parents is mainly during its teenage years. These are times of rebellion, disagreement, strong emotion, psychological changes and sexual experimentation just to name a few. The way parents take it can often change the ways they think towards their loved ones and others around them. The selfish and isolated character Stew, In “Tiny Smiling Daddy” by Mary Gaitskill, is revealed through third person-omniscient point of few. The literary point of view in “Tiny Smiling Daddy” is told from the third person omniscient point of view which lets the reader into the mind of the protagonist Stew. Stew lets the reader into the minds of Kitty his daughter, and his wife Marsha by foreshadowing stories from family events that occurred in the past. The protagonist and his selfish ways is a characteristic conveyed through the whole story. The fact that he liked his daughter best when she was, “The sullen, morbid Kitty of sixteen” (Gaitskill 457) shows a lot about his character. Kitty a lesbian made Stew selfish that she didn’t turn out the way he wanted her to.” He couldn’t help to get angry because it overrode his helplessness” (Gaitskill 458). Stew describes his relationship with his daughter by saying,” As he watched her, that she was doing things that were as bad or worse than the things that had him angry at her five years before. It seemed that a large white space existed between him and her” (Gaitskill 459). He keeps comparing her to the older daughter he wanted her to be. When reading the article Kitty wrote in the national magazine Self, she writes about how she thinks about her father saying,” My father may love me but he doesn’t love the way I live, even more complicated because I’m gay”(Gaitskill 460). She exposes his selfishness from her own point of view, and he reacts by such

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