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Date Posted: 19:26:46 03/27/08 Thu
Author: Betsy Peters
Subject: Re: Dysfunctional Families
In reply to: Erin Risch 's message, "Dysfunctional Families" on 12:49:08 03/26/08 Wed

The men in the family uniting together against Mary's dope addition raises the question as to how the family as gotten along as Mary has recovered. Notice, on the day in which Mary appears to be at her best, looking "fat and sassy" again, the father and son are at each others' throats as soon as they get in the same room. When Jamie makes a comment about his father's snoring, James takes reat offense. Dad replies "scathingly," "contempuously," "scowling," "with a painful effort to be a good sport" to which Mary and Edmund (who momentarily gang up against dad's irracibility to unite) both respond: "You mustn't be so touchy" and "Give it a rest, can't you?" Touchy is a perfect word to describe the Tyrone family at the opening novel. The mimetic tensions have had no outlet for a while--they have really mounted as the first scene opens.

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