I recently started a book called The Splendor Falls written by Rosemary Clement-Moore. This book is about a girl name Sylvie who is a dancer. She broke her leg making her career end. Sylvie is having problems being able to accept her mother's remarriage and she is brokenhearted because of her father's death. To feel better, Sylvie starts to drink. Her mother sends her away from the city into the country to get better. In this book, Sylvie talks a lot about what her father used to say to her, but we aren't able to hear her father. I think Sylvie's father's perspective is missing from this story.
I think Sylvie's father's perspective is missing because we are unable to hear his voice through the book. Though he is dead, I think in the book there could have been moments where they went back in the past. Instead, we only hear from Sylvie's father from when she thinks about what her father used to say to her. She tells the readers how her father feels, but we aren't sure if he really feels that way. Sylvie's father never told her much about his past, so when she stays with her father's family in the country, she is questioned about things that her father should have talked about with her. When she saw her cousins house, Sylvie didn't know that her father had a wealthy family.
In conclusion, I wish I could see more of Sylvie's father's perspective. Maybe more into the book I will get something. I think adding the father's perspective would make the book more special.
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