) He studies her photograph. He thinks her at odd times of the day.
Although her father does love Daisy, she feels alone. As a baby she is unhappy by not being with her flesh and blood. Knowing that her father could not choose a name for her, this leaves this poor young woman feeling a void in her young life.
When Daisy is eleven years old, she catches the measles from a child at her school. She was very ill and had to stay all alone in a dark room so her condition will not deteriorate.
She must of have slept a great deal- for how else could an active child have endured such a width of vacant time? - and whenever she woke it was with a stiff body and a vacuum she sensed, suddenly, in the middle of her life. Something was missing, and it took weeks in that dim room, weeks of heavy blankets, and the image of that upside-down tree inside her chest to inform her of what that precious interior ore that everyone around her seemed to possess.
All alone in that dim room makes Daisy unhappy. She feels some voids and gaps in her life. She feels something is missing. She cannot be with the people the people who love her. Daisy cannot help Aunt Clarentine in the garden. The garden is the one true thing that makes her happy. .
While Daisy was all alone in the dim room lots of things, passe thought Daisy Goodwill's mind. She thinks that if she would write an autobiography, later in life, that it would be the results of a narrative text full of gaps and voids.
The long days of isolation, of silence, the torment of boredom - all these pressed down on me, on young Daisy Goodwill and emptied her out. Her autobiography, if such a thing were imaginable, would be, if such a thing were ever to be written, an assemblage of dark voids and unbridgeable gaps.
This is how Daisy sees her life. It would be full of voids and gaps that cannot be completed.
In the year 1927, Daisy Goodwill is now twenty-two years old. She is living in Bloomington, Indiana and is to wed to Mr.
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