A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. Contrarily to the previews statement, Junot Diaz as well as Sylvia Plath have proven through their works that this is not always correct. Both parents in the stories instead of building have mentally destroyed their children. “Fiesta 1980” by Junot Diaz and “Daddy” by Silvia Plath are similar in the way both narrators present their fathers as tyrants and oppressors, but different in the way the main characters tend to develop through life.
In “Fiesta 1980” by Junot Diaz, a family from Santo Domingo is going to the Bronx to celebrate some relative’s arrival to the United Sates. Yunior, the son of an abusive father, describes his life enclosed by the figure of this …show more content…
While in “Daddy” the narrator suffers the absence of her father, Yunior in “Fiesta 1980” does not even care about what his father may think anymore. For instance, in “Daddy,” the narrator, despite the father’s image of power and authority which would commonly incite fear among others, has an undefined love for him and misses him even to the point that she wishes he would be present in her childhood. Plath states “I used to pray to recover you,” (Plath 14) showing her yearning desire to be together again. After the failure of suicide in an attempt to “get back, back, back to you” [Daddy], she decides to marry a “model” of her father, which shows an extremely mental instability and her inability to differentiate between what was correct and what was dangerous. Observing her marriage with a replica of her father, from a psychological point her behavior is often analyzed as a common father – daughter bond. A girl’s early relationship with her father, usually the first male object of her love, is always the linchpin of her personal life. This bond shapes a woman’s conscious and unconscious perceptions of what she can expect and what is acceptable in a romantic relationship. According to Gaspard, “a father's presence (or lack of presence) in his daughter's life will affect how she will relate to all men who come after him and can impact her view of herself and psychological well-being.” On the other hand, Yunior in “Fiesta 1890” has perfectly grown apart from the paternal figure. Diaz states “I still wanted him to love me, something that never seemed strange or contradictory until years later, when he was out of our lives”(Diaz 246). Even though the story does not prolongs to a future phase, this breve foreshadowing allows the reader to experience the feeling of liberation Yunior had, once his father was out of his
In “Fiesta 1980” by Junot Diaz, a family from Santo Domingo is going to the Bronx to celebrate some relative’s arrival to the United Sates. Yunior, the son of an abusive father, describes his life enclosed by the figure of this …show more content…
While in “Daddy” the narrator suffers the absence of her father, Yunior in “Fiesta 1980” does not even care about what his father may think anymore. For instance, in “Daddy,” the narrator, despite the father’s image of power and authority which would commonly incite fear among others, has an undefined love for him and misses him even to the point that she wishes he would be present in her childhood. Plath states “I used to pray to recover you,” (Plath 14) showing her yearning desire to be together again. After the failure of suicide in an attempt to “get back, back, back to you” [Daddy], she decides to marry a “model” of her father, which shows an extremely mental instability and her inability to differentiate between what was correct and what was dangerous. Observing her marriage with a replica of her father, from a psychological point her behavior is often analyzed as a common father – daughter bond. A girl’s early relationship with her father, usually the first male object of her love, is always the linchpin of her personal life. This bond shapes a woman’s conscious and unconscious perceptions of what she can expect and what is acceptable in a romantic relationship. According to Gaspard, “a father's presence (or lack of presence) in his daughter's life will affect how she will relate to all men who come after him and can impact her view of herself and psychological well-being.” On the other hand, Yunior in “Fiesta 1890” has perfectly grown apart from the paternal figure. Diaz states “I still wanted him to love me, something that never seemed strange or contradictory until years later, when he was out of our lives”(Diaz 246). Even though the story does not prolongs to a future phase, this breve foreshadowing allows the reader to experience the feeling of liberation Yunior had, once his father was out of his