Life is about living in the moment and making it extraordinary. In each time, there are the norms yet it takes a remarkable person to make their story stand out. In a collection of fictional short stories called Astray by Emma Donoghue, characters with different background and perceptions create their remarkable journey. Donoghue has organized the stories into three sub-themes to departures, in transit, and arrivals and aftermath. Within each sub-themes, there are about four to five short stories focus on characters inspired by real people and events. “Daddy’s Girl” was about a woman being a man in the 1900's. “What Remains” was about two female sculptors accomplishments. Both stories are found in the sub-themes of arrivals and aftermath that
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They did not receive the same rights as men because they were known as weak. In the story of “Daddy’s Girl,” it begins with Minnie arriving to face the facts that her father was not born a man. Minnihasve lost both her parents at the age of twenty-two not knowing who she truly is. Daddy, also known as Mr. Murray Hall, ran an employment agency and he was “a pillar of the Democratic party” in New York City. Daddy was granted to work within the political field and his friends treated him well. Like Minnie, Daddy only portrayed himself as a male which made them feel like fools. “Daddy’s friends used to complain that all the years they were going bald as taters, he never lost a hair off his head. And another thing, his face is always smooth, as if he’s come up directly from the barber’s, even when I know for a fact he’s only just got out of bed” (231). Daddy came to New York with nothing but ventured through to having State Senator Barney Martin to Tammany Hall giving him power and safety. He is a deviant that may have tricked many people but he made a clear point that women are also capable of having power. After going through Daddy’s office and questioning her background identity, Minnie respects her father’s integrity and moves
They did not receive the same rights as men because they were known as weak. In the story of “Daddy’s Girl,” it begins with Minnie arriving to face the facts that her father was not born a man. Minnihasve lost both her parents at the age of twenty-two not knowing who she truly is. Daddy, also known as Mr. Murray Hall, ran an employment agency and he was “a pillar of the Democratic party” in New York City. Daddy was granted to work within the political field and his friends treated him well. Like Minnie, Daddy only portrayed himself as a male which made them feel like fools. “Daddy’s friends used to complain that all the years they were going bald as taters, he never lost a hair off his head. And another thing, his face is always smooth, as if he’s come up directly from the barber’s, even when I know for a fact he’s only just got out of bed” (231). Daddy came to New York with nothing but ventured through to having State Senator Barney Martin to Tammany Hall giving him power and safety. He is a deviant that may have tricked many people but he made a clear point that women are also capable of having power. After going through Daddy’s office and questioning her background identity, Minnie respects her father’s integrity and moves