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Dear Daddy

Dear Daddy
Sylvia Plath’s poem Daddy can be seen by today’s readers as a piece not only about the
Resentment of a father but about the resentment of the way that she views society’s elders. Also this
Piece can be seen as an owed to the victims that were part of one of the most horrible actions in human
history, The Holocaust.
Plath describes her father in detail within the piece however the detail that we see is not exactly one that would please us to the eye. She writes, “Ghastly Statue with one gray toe,” this line is very insightful for the reader because it helps to describe the stature of her father. “Ghastly Statue,” sticks out here as one phrase that would tell the reader that he was a large man. Perhaps of great stature. However it could mean that he presented himself as a man of great stature even though he might have been a shorter man. What is meant by this is that he demanded a great deal of respect ant was given it.
With the many refrences to......


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