may compromise a parent’s ability to meet a child’s basic needs/health. Both Theodore Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz” and Walter McDonald’s “Life with Father,” offer a dark, disturbing view into the lives/behaviors of innocent children with alcoholic fathers. In “My Papa’s Waltz,” a young boy partakes in a—literal and figurative—dance with his father; while in “Life with Father,” a group of children attempt to avoid their father and escape reality. Yet, despite acts of cruelty, vivid imagery, diction…
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