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Hellen referring to the dad as Charlie...

posted 12 years ago by maxy80
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I thought this part was interesting that Doug was curious as to why she called him "Charlie" and not "your father. " her explanation was that's just the way she thought of him...as Charlie and that was it. Anyone have any thought on this, any other explanations? The reason I ask is because my dad does the same thing with my mom and she gets so irritated by it.

"You punched the highlights out of her hair! He punched the highlights out of her hair!"

[–] irishaspaddyspig 12 years ago

Doug's father died before he was born.
If he had been alive and had a relationship with Doug, no matter how brief, she might have referred to him as, "your father".
In a way, Doug had no claim to him.
She seems to have had an intense love for her husband that emotionally excluded eveyone else

Maybe, she loved him as a man, but did not relate to him as the father figure of her boys.

"a malcontent who knows how to spell"