Mary Gaitskill's The Other Place

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Everyone has a choose to shun someone from their lives, but others decide to open to their inner thoughts to get to the bottom line even when it’s judge and shamed by others. People are quick to criticize someone’s fault before they realize they may face with the same situation, but when communication is open and honest then nothing is left unspoken. In Mary Gaitskill’s short story “The Other Place” highlights a father’s fight from a disturbed childhood, however, attempt to be there for his son during his dark world. The theme is influence and dominance in the story.
It’s easy to become influence by nature and the bad that are exposes in the world at an early age without adult supervision. Falling in a dark path because it’s a struggle to …show more content…

The good and the bad things that happens in the world expose people mean in the nation’s eye, but then again they are good influence that shapes people for the better. Even if the experience was self-alone or with a partner it’s good to know someone’s around to pick up the broken piece. According to Mary Gaitskill’s short story “The Other Place” quote, “Somewhere in him is the other place... I also know that he won’t be alone with it” (Gaitskill). The main character is stands behind his son’s actions, even when they share similar emotions around the same time as he’s son, he wants to establish an understanding he knows exactly what he’s son is goes through because that was him around the same way. Meaning the dad went to the stages alone and act as a passive-aggressive teenager. The dad extremely arouse for the brutal killing of the girls, his hitchhiking to allure women shows lack of parental figure. His mother does not know the son’s dangerous missions or seems to pay attention to her son at all which leads him into the path with redemption and peace that he was not able portray the thoughts in his head, if so, he would not be able to help his son with the same problem. Though he knows he would never speak to his son about the tremor, the justify feels his around for his son without words says a lot. The father did not have a mentor who knows how he feels or share his emotion. The mother did not show the …show more content…

The act of dominance is nice and trouble, not many discuss about this taboo topic due to its sensitive demands that comes with it. Instead society’s often to leave that power to the rich and successful men who’s are able to control the dominate trait and girls are likely to fall in-love with someone like that, but that’s false advertisement. According to Julia states “Domination is a powerful motif in “The Other Place’’ (Jenne). The story shows dominance has its own control to whoever dreams of such power. The narrator is dark place happens when he’s in the other place where the fantasies he wants to happen actually does. He’s not afraid to get caught because he’s subconscious would take the blame for the damage not him. In other word, since his birth the narrator never has a say, he learns he mother was an escort, his father is not around, he lack social and intrapersonal skills , however, that all change with his other persona take over, that present an taboo situation people are not able to talk about, the narrator lack of good prenatal figure is troubles him, he has no one to confine to before until he meets his wife and has a son who he knows share his other place persona, and for the narrator he understands he’s son and would be right there to guide him into the

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