Moving Out

"Once I was out of the house of course... I gave my father of my life was exactly the vision in which I myself most desperately needed to believe." (p. 20)

Here the narrator displays the approach of being independent, but in a way that excludes him from his own family. He does so in order to make his father feel better and by telling him what he wants to hear. This tactic in the most common cases is started during the college years once an individual is about ready to leave his or her home for a substantial amount of time. Personally, there have been times where the truth may have been manipulated in order to cause a less stressful mother, however, the narrator does so that he can make his own choices and contradict what his father has been telling him over the years when living in the same home. This can be seen as an example of rejecting ones parent.