Dialectical Journal #27: The Blind Assassin

Passages From The Text	Pg #	Comments & Questions
·         “’ We’ll go to Betty’s,’ said my father. ‘I’ll buy you a soda.’ Neither of these things had ever happened to me before. Betty’s Luncheonette was for the townspeople, not for Laura and me, said Reenie. It wouldn't do to lower our standards. Also, sodas were a ruinous indulgence and would rot your teeth. That two such forbidden things should be offered at once, and so casually, made me feel almost panicky."	100	·         (R) This makes me feel sympathetic towards Iris and her sister. I can’t imagine what it’s like to not really know your father, and not have him know you. The thing that makes this whole situation worse is the fact that Iris lives with her dad. They have been in the same house, yet he doesn't know that his daughters have had the idea that that restaurant and soda are bad pounded into their head since they were how old? That’s unacceptable. The sad thing is that though this story is fiction, this kind of father-child relationship is some people’s reality.