The Negative Effects of Faltering Father Figures.
Nothing can compare to the crucial element that is a strong and influential male figure in a woman's early life. In the early developments of a woman's life a father figure can be a contributing growth factor to self - esteem, confidence, and emotional refuge. Yet when the case is reversed, serious problems can leave agonizing scars. The emotional gap left between an indifferent (or otherwise disappointing) father and a resenting daughter can result in a rupture of the relationship between a creator and his creation. Through "Forgiving my Father," and "Daddy," both Lucille Clifton and Sylvia Plath, respectively, convey a common thematic in their writings: their anger and resentment towards their fathers.
Lucille Clifton's "Forgiving my Father," is a picture - perfect example of how the troubled relationship of a woman with her father can entice resentment. Through her "poetry of transcendence" (Waniek 3), Clifton evokes how her father's (or the narrator's father's) inefficiency to cope fed her growing anger. The author implies that the father was always using the daughter (as well as the mother) as a mean of ventilating anger and frustration. The marriage "[was] each other's bad bargain" (Clifton 344), and not the daughter's wrong - doing. It is implied that the daughter was blamed by the father for the faltering marriage. Clearly, the daughter shows her frustration at being blamed for that situation, which was evidently out of her hands. By "exposing . [her family's] interior lives," Clifton portrays the cause of her father's frustration (Waniek 1). One of the reasons why the marriage was faltering in the beginning was the father's inefficiency to provide for an ailing family. The father always "[lay] side by side in debtor's boxes," and thus he always "came up empty" (Clifton 344). In a sense, the daughter's anger can be justified as the disappointment for having a father who was not responsible for his family.
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