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A 9 page essay that discusses Anne Tyler's novels Celestial Navigation and Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. Anne Tyler's novels have been described as "songs written in the key of hardship" (Patrick 24). In many of Tyler's narratives, her female protagonists are isolated, divorced from the company of other women, which denies them the sort of social support that women draw on from each other. In Tyler's novels, also, mothers are seldom resources for daughters. They are frequently out of touch with who their daughters are and are too caught up in their own emotional needs to tend to those of their children. Daughters who are raised by such mothers find that they, likewise, have no emotional resources on which to draw to nourish their own children and the cycle perpetuates itself. Furthermore, the women's emotional isolation prevents them from developing any sort of true intimacy with the men in their lives. These isolated, emotionally-starved women find themselves primarily in their situations due to breakdowns in communication, as well as misplaced assumptions about what is important in life. This pattern of development is particularly clear in Tyler's novels Celestial Navigation and Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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divorced from the company of other women, which denies them the sort of social support that women draw on from each other. In Tylers novels, also, mothers are seldom resources
for daughters. They are frequently out of touch with who their daughters are and are too caught up in their own emotional needs to tend to those of their children.
Daughters who are raised by such mothers find that they, likewise, have no emotional resources on which to draw to nourish their own children and the cycle perpetuates itself. Furthermore,
the womens emotional isolation prevents them from developing any sort of true intimacy with the men in their lives. These isolated, emotionally-starved women find themselves primarily in their situations due
to breakdowns in communication, as well as misplaced assumptions about what is important in life. This pattern of development is particularly clear in Tylers novels Celestial Navigation and Dinner at
the Homesick Restaurant. In Tylers novels, young women suffer "because their mothers neglect them, or fail to guide them, or remain unaware of the lives the daughters lead" (Evans
93). In Celestial Navigation, Mary Darcy says of her relationship with her parents, "What bothered me was not my parents or even their way of living, but the fact that
it seemed to be the only way open to me" (Celestial 63). Mary wishes to avoid the "single narrow path" outlined by her parents lives, but makes choices that
lead her directly down such a path. First, she marries Guy Tell, who spends his time racing motorcycles and sees the world as having himself at its epicenter. He thinks
only of his daughter, Darcy, whom he fathered with Mary, (and whom he suggested they named "Guyette") when he shows the baby off to his friends. When Darcy
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