Let It Snow Reflection

In the short shorty “Let it Snow,” David and his four sisters are delighted with a snow day. However, during their vacation the children realize the truth about their family. David’s the Sedaris’s “Let it Snow” is an effective work of self-reflection because it shares personal experiences of a broken family one can relate to, uses raw emotions, and the characters develop throughout the story. During the story Sedaris focuses on one main event, his mother and the relationship she has to him and his four sisters. It is not a positive situation. “Our presence had disrupted the secret life she led while we were at school, and when she could no longer take it she threw us out. It wasn’t a gentle request, but something closer to an eviction” (Sedaris 89). One can relate to having a mother being brutal, due to wanting her peace and quiet.
However, David and his sisters went sledding with other children from the neighborhood for a few hours. When returning home, the

David and his sisters do not know their fathers number and with that being said he would not do anything anyway because he goes to work to escape his own wife (Sedaris 90). The children have a selfish mother who is an alcoholic and a father who is not around a majority of the time due to the negative dynamic of the family.
After these events, David came to the realization that they need to do something dramatic to not only grab their mother’s attention but to teach both of their parents a lesson. He wants his parents to feel regret. David suggest for one of his sisters to lay in the road to be hit by a car. The siblings argue back and forth about who should lay and the street. Amy chose Tiffany, the youngest and who had no concept of death to risk her life (Sedaris 90). Tiffany like many younger siblings is naïve, and would do anything for affection from her older siblings or