Story of daughter and father continue…………..

                                          

After father’s death, Alison’s still thinking about her father’s death and talking about his passion about gardening. Sometimes, she says, he died because he probably saw the snake that she did. Then, she thinks about her dream that she saw two days before he died. She saw the glorious sunset that was visible through the tress, but when her father comes, there was nothing. Then she thinks, “If this was a premonitory dream, I can only say that its condolence-card association of death with a setting sun is maudlin in the extreme”. So, she thinks that it was a sign for his death and the list of his death reasons continue…s.  

            Her father was a big fan of gardening. He just loved flower plants/trees. From the garden to the bedrooms, it was all flowers. They can be “silk flowers, glass flowers, needlepoint flower, flower painting, where any of these failed to materialize, floral patterns (90)”. He almost had most of the flower kinds. “Our home was an efflorescence of bulbs, buds, and blooms, flowers wild and cultivated, native and imported, flowering vines and trees...”. Her father’s favorite flowers were the Lilacs. When Alison was seven, she wrote some poetry and showed to her father. Her father would add in a line that includes flowers in it. So, I think that flowers were a big part of her father’s life. Connection with gardening shows that her father was a nature person. Even though he was little disconnected with his family at certain times, but he enjoyed spring and liked nature a lot.

            I think Alison had a lot of respect for her father and always wanted to start everything with him. Even when it comes to writing her own auto-biography, her father was the one who helped her to start. “The first three words are in my father’s handwriting, as if he were giving me a jump start” (140). I think that even writing this novel was an inspiration from her father. By writing this book, she wanted to express her love for her father that she probably couldn’t express when he was alive. It could be the reason that she always tried to find out the reason that why he died through the chapters. I think that there relationship was very unique, which was sometime filled with love and sometime anger.