What I believe is revealed about the mothers and fathers relationship is that it is stressed to its limits. This is first revealed when the fathers inner monologue mentions how he has to tell his daughter that he and her mother are separating. This already shows how bad their relationship has deteriorated, but when the father is questioning the mother about their daughters decisions as seen by "Hell, Mary. You know what this is. The son of a bitch was her goddam teacher." it shows how not only how angry the father is, but how spiteful he can be. In the following line "They said nothing for a few moments." shows that there was nothing more to be said and that their relationship was on its last legs.

What strikes me the most in this conversation between father and daughter is how for a moment they are both in denial. This is first seen by the father when he asks if the daughter is joking or pulling a prank on him when she tells him that she is pregnant. I believe that this reveals the effects of not telling your parent what is going on in your life and then suddenly filling them in on everything. The daughter is in denial by trying to convince herself that 63 and 23 is an acceptable age gap for a romantic relationship. I believe that this is shown by her calling 63 a young 63 instead of just calling it 63.

I believe that this line summarizes up the daughters character very well. Through out reading the passage, one thing became abundantly clear: the daughter did not communicate a lot of major events that were happening in her life to her parents. This is first seen by the daughter telling her parents that she is seeing someone, only to be followed by the statement that she wants to marry him. This is quickly one upped when the daughter informs her father that she is pregnant and the man she is seeing is actually 63. All of these revelations obviously surprise the father and strains their relationship to say the least. One other thing that is revealed about their relationship is how her father is treating her like a child and she is not having it as seen by the line annotated.