While watching the documentart Be Good, Smile Pretty, I was shocked at how much the mother and daughter had different views on how to grieve. The mother basically told the daughter, Tracy, that she should not feel pain for her father because she never knew him. I thought that was very out of line because if you lose someone close to you and did not know them at all, you still can mourn for them. Also, I did not like that the mother wanted to put away all of her old stuff from her husband after the documentary was made because that shows that she cares, just not enough to want to remember her late husband and keep his old stuff out.
I also had one other question: why did the author of the story of how Don died wait until thirty something years after the fact to publish it? Was it just that he didnt have the strength to write it before then, or that he just did not want the family to know how he passed? I think that he was very selfish in not writing the story earlier because he was keeping information that the family wanted, or even needed in order to actually know what went on.
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I agree with you in that Tracy's mom was out of line by telling Tracy she should not grieve for her own father. I found that a little extreme. Telling someone they cant feel sad for the loss of their father is ridiculous and Tracy should react to his death however she wishes.
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