VLVL Zoyd: good dad or bad dad?

[Tim Strzechowski]

Exactly what is your point in this?  That Zoyd isn't a model father?  Last I
saw, NO one was disagreeing with you, man.  But no, please, argue away . . .


>
> 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.
>
> best
>
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