Lunsford - Can We Talk

Can We Talk?
I disagreed with this short story because it don’t apply to me. My mother may drive me crazy, I may turn her off, but we don’t have this kind of relationship like the story said. I think the author assumed that everybody have that kind of relationship. That is not true for me because I don’t really get along with my mother at all. We looked so fine at the outside, at inside, we are not that close. It was my fault and her fault too. At first, she divorced my father for other man and now she is married to another guy who is not friendly with me. In the short story, I would cry for my own mother or I would feel that I miss my own mother. I don’t because after three years living with her alone. How she actually treated me different at home and the places with people around, an unpleasant experience but it changed myself in a better person. This argument affects me pretty big time because I realized that the author in fact assumed wrong. There are dysfunctional relationships between the daughter and mother around us. Many of them do have that kind of relationship like the author told in the story. Some of the relationships are the opposite like mine.
It connected to chapter three and four. Chapter three, arguments based on character, my personality and my mother’s personality is the opposite and this kind of relationship demonstrates the assumption mistake of the author. Chapter four, arguments based on facts and reasons. I have my own facts and reasons for this kind of relationship with my mother. The facts, how she treated my father in the past and how she looked at me like her enemy’s daughter. I have my own reasons to be not close to my mother because how she treated me and how she ignored me when I was unhappy with the school and self esteem. I am not pointing at the author because she made a mistake. In fact, she assumed wrong, she may need to research more about that kind of relationship between my mother and I.