Not For Sale

Not For Sale We covered many themes regarding the story Not For Sale. However, the one theme that most interest me is Fatherhood. In many instances the role of the father is underestimated. We don’t usually examine the struggles that a father deal with especially his concerns when raising a daughter. From the eyes of the narrator, who is also the teenage daughter, we see her adolescent view of feeling unfair treatment by her …showed first 75 words of 491 total…

…showed last 75 words of 491 total…on her side and in a position to be a comforter. “She knew that I could be brought out of my surliness, my seething anger at my father’s constant vigilance, by a visit from the storytelling salesman. The daughter displays resentment not directly at her father, but at her father’s watchfulness, “my father constant vigilance”. He was doing his job as a father, but in her intellect he was over doing his job.