Golden Darters
We live in a changing society, where people have to deal with hardships, emotions and differences. The relationship of father to daughter is one of the hardest. We as people have come along way. It used to be that a father and daughter couldn't be close. The mother and daughter are together and the father and son are together. Now it is encouraged for different sexes to be close. In the "Golden Darters" Elizabeth Winthrop uses symbolism to demonstrate the difficulty of a father-daughter bond.In the beginning of the story Winthrop uses the symbol of the golden darter to show how different fathers and daughters are. Emily the young girl in the story has gone up to the lake house with her family for the month of July. Her father has taken up the hobby of fly-tying, a peaceful and relaxing hobby. Throughout the story we come across the importance of fly-tying to the father. "I was the only child allowed to stand next to him while he worked" (146) Emily and her father weren't close, which is why I imagine to be the reason of her fathers sudden wanting of Emily to tie flies. Although Emily had
other ideas, " we talked to boys, smoke and, had leg shaving parties. (151) Despite Emily's unwillingness to help her father, she finally gives in to her father's demands. As you can see Emily and her father may come from the same family but there is an obvious difference in opinion between the two. In this instance the young girl's instincts surpass her fathers wishes to honor what her father had shared with her, and to cherish the experience of fly-tying. Throughout the story Withrop uses the golden darter to symbolize the repeating result to the father and daughter inability to relate to each other. The sol reason for Emily's father getting involved with tying was because he had a serious operation on his back. It started as just something to keep busy with, but he soon came to love it, he loved being relaxed and in control. Emil was noticeably not exited for being able to tie flies with her dad, considering she would do anything to get out of the house, "I joined trips with my mother to the library and to the general store." Emily obviously didn't feel comfortable being with her father if she chose to
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Approximate Word count = 755
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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