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The book lust5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() relies more on angering her father in order to see how much he cares about her. With Rose Smiley portrays an aggressive love. Smiley is portraying how not to show one‘s love and she does so With each of the children in the novel. She falls prey to it as soon as she expects her father to return her “love” in the same fashion that she expresses it namely by being bloody annoying. Daddy, it looks like we picked all the same things) He ignored me”, and thus Ginny has sown the seeds of her own demise. However this love is a clingy, needy love that her father cannot return. Telling the novel only through Ginny‘s perspective serves to clarify and focus the events through the lens of a child‘s fragile. Smiley’s novel revolves around the consequences of confusing lust with love and the love of a Wife With the love of a daughter. What comes only with one type of love the love of a man and a woman this love cannot be transferred to other types of love that of father and daughter. ![]() However Smiley has put a new spin on the love involved in the love test a sort of hybrid of “honor thy mother and thy father” and an Oedipal complex not true love but. Her message is quite clear (since she stole it from Shakespeare) love in its very nature is something one cannot measure attempting to do so can only lead to disaster. Smiley presents what at first seems to be a typical American farm family, but is quickly revealed to be anything but. In Jane Smiley‘s “A Thousand Acres” the main focus is of the family and familial relationships. ![]()
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