Ashley Hushka, Blog # 8/13

"She stared into her reflection, at the face that had always been half a mystery to her, despite photos of her mother that Zoyd and Sasha had shown her. It was easy to see Zoyd in her face--that turn of chin, slope of eyebrows-- but she'd known for along time how to filter these out, as a way to find the face of her mother in what was left."


Prairie's mother, Frenesi, left her when she was a baby. As the quote says, she has only seen photos of her mother. I think this is a problem many people face who have never met one of their parents. They only know what they see in the one parent that they can see in themselves. It must be hard to only have one parent and always have that wonder of what the other parent was like and how you are like them. I chose the picture of Donna in 'Quantum Leap' because like Prairie, her parent left her when she was young.





Thomas Pynchon, Vineland (Canada: Little, Brown and Company, 1990) pg. 98
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