VLVL Zoyd: good dad or bad dad?

[jbor]

>> As is the assumption that it was Zoyd who went to the health food store to
>> buy the soda, or that it was delivered by magical pixies. Someone went
>> there, and of the two I'm willing to assert that it's more likely to have
>> been Prairie.
> 
> With all due respect, Rob, for as much as you harp on folks to stick to the
> text and support their arguments with textual evidence, I find your approach
> to this passage surprisingly presumptuous.  Even the magical pixie part . .
> .

Are you saying that the details about it being "from the health food store",
or that Prairie is the one drinking it, aren't in the text? That's the
support for the assertion, but if you want to suggest that there's some
other explanation for why these details are there in the text (14), or if
you want to pretend they're not there at all, that's OK too.

I'll even go out on a limb here and say that because she's the one who makes
up the dinner guacamole (for both Zoyd and Isaiah, note) then she's the one
who has organised these ingredients as well. And note also how Zoyd observes
that "she'd gone a little heavy tonight on the commercial salsa" (18).
There's quite a lot in these details that builds up our picture of the
complexities in the relationship between Zoyd, Prairie and Isaiah.

Check out also the way Prairie has fed the last of the Count Chocula to
Desmond (3-4) and left the note conspicuously under the empty box to let
Zoyd know that she had. Clearly, or clearly enough to some, it's not all
plain sailing in paradise.

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