Family Quotes in The Time Traveler's Wife Page 3
Citations follow this format: (Book.Chapter.Paragraph)
| Quote #7 [Henry:] Everyone is smiling, well-mannered, and good-looking. We are a model happy family, an advertisement for the bourgeoisie. […] But […] …there is a noticeable strain. […] We are all acting, pretending to be relaxed, impersonating the ideal mother, father, sisters, brother, boyfriend, fiancée. (1.9.350) |
Although Henry seems to criticize the fact that everyone's just faking the happy family, he plays along. Why might that be?
| Quote #8 [Henry:] [Kimy] must be seventy and to me she seems exactly the same as when I was little. I spent a lot of time down here, helping her make dinner, […] reading, doing homework, and watching TV. (1.10.1) |
Kimy basically became Henry's mother after his passed away, because his father was too distraught to look after him.
| Quote #9 [Richard DeTamble:] "Yes, [Annette DeTamble] was very happy… we were happy." [Henry:] "Yeah. You were like a different person. I always wondered what it would have been like to grow up with you the way you were, then. (1.10.97-99) |
By telling his father how happy he used to be and what a great father he might have been, Henry subtly telling his father that he always craved his love and still does.
