B. Is this memoir without villains?
No this memoir is not without villains. The villain through a serious of rape, molestation, and incest, victimizes Sylvia Fraser. The villain is clearly the father, who is the person that commits these disturbing acts on his daughter, Sylvia Fraser. In the memoir, after Sylvia describes a period in her life in which the abuse took place (a period lasting until her teenage years), she states, “The joker on my fathers porch has at last delivered. And the true villain of the piece? Not the breadman, as I wrote in Pandora, but the breadwinner with the devil’s hooked hand.” Here, Sylvia clearly states that there is a villain, and not one that she expected before. Although Sylvia’s father took the form of the villain and performed all of those terrible incest acts on her, she still forgave him which lead to her finding the willpower to forgive and live with herself.
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I totally agree with what Sherwin says about this memoir and the father being the villain. The quote that he uses to proove what Sylvia thinks is an excellent choice to show that even the daughter believes that her father is a villain.
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