Conflict In Forgiveness In Family

The major number of families live happily together and have no conflicts. At least no major conflicts. They get along with each other just fine. On the other hand, there are also many families that are dysfunctional. All of the different families are dysfunctional in their own different ways and get into conflicts pretty much on a daily basis; in other words, they are not able to function as a family. One example of this sort of break down in families can be seen in the story “Forgiveness In Families.” The main dysfunction in this story is more complex than usual in some way, as it’s more a self-conflict. Val is trying to take all the attention away from Cameron and that is causing her to become in opposition to him and even in some way with her mother.
Val does not really spend much time describing herself however it is quite easy to evaluate the fact that she is uptight based on the fact that a lot of her brother’s life events seemed to annoy her greatly. After the event with her mother in the hospital, she realizes that she really is not much …show more content…
Cameron is seen as a liar, “…he spent the whole day sitting in the movie houses…because Mother and all of us believed that he was working…,” thief, “…a letter came. A request of funds. …but he didn’t send back the money.” In addition, he also was inconsiderate and irresponsible “He got on the phone and phoned me.” So far we can tell why Val has such opposition towards her brother although that he has never done anything to her in specific. Furthermore, we can see a dysfunction at the end of the story. Val has an epiphany moment at the end of the story, in which she realizes the fact that it was in her interest that something very bad happened to their mother just so that she can finally blame something on