CHAPTER 31For thirty-seven years he resented the boy, the youngest of his four children. The other three, all daughters, worshipped their dad, shared in his life, rejoiced in his successes and pursued men just like him to be their husbands. But the boy followed a course all his own, not antagonistic, only independent, unique—exactly what the father was not. He resented the boy's individuality and lack of discipline, and hated his gentle, non-combative nature.
Father: rigid, strong, a lover of sports and the right order of things; Son: flexible, meek, a lover of arts, who challenged authority. From the boy's adolescence throughout adulthood, the father only tolerated his son, because he was not like other sons. He was an embarrassment, an object of finger pointing and ridicule. At family g
