david gold- tiny smiling daddy critique

A major problem for me in Tiny Smiling Daddy is the end. There is no resolution, not with kitty, the father or Marsha. The story just ends. It flashes back to a pivotal moment is the relationship between kitty and her father and then the story ends. The audience never finds out what happens when kitty and her father talk again, how the article affects them, or really what the article says. The story only shows snip bits of the article, and talks about how the father does not understand what she’s writing about, so it is difficult for the audience to know what the article is really about. We get clues and quotes, but I can’t help but think there is more to the article than just that. The story doesn’t even end with an indication it is going to move forward. Marsha sits on the couch and nothing else ever happens to these characters ever again.   

I also had trouble sympathizing with the father. At times he seemed pathetic then like a good man who didn’t deserve to be treated so harshly, at other times though, he just seemed like a bastard. Especially at the end when he yells at kitty for being a lesbian. It’s hard to like him through out the entire story.