The Conflict Within The Family, By Alison Bechdel, Joan...
Families, which are basic units of human commit, are constructed from individuals with unique
character; these individuals taken as a whole, construct the larger character of the family itself.
However, because no individual s character is perfectly compatible with another s, there exist
inevitable conflict within the family, such as can be expressed as conflict between the self and either
another single member or the entire group. Naturally, the rational self will seek to ameliorate such as
conflict, perhaps by simply accepting it as a natural part of human life. Other instances, which form
the basis of the essay and find roots in essays by Alison Bechdel, Joan Didion, and Richard Rodriguez,
occur when such acceptance does not. I strongly suggest that the common response to familial
conflict, avoidance, that is, escaping the friction between human characters by refusing on some level
to participate in family, introduces a new conflict. While Didion, Bechdel, and Rodriguez, provide
textual support to the birth of this second conflict, I shall seek to explain its nature. Born of
contrasting characters in family and self, conflict will not be replaced, but bolstered in avoidance.
Thus, in acceptance, the self finds resolution. Though I say it nonetheless, it is fairly obvious that most
people participate in some kind of a familial unit as previously described, and thus are familiar with
the conflicts to which I alluded. The piece by Joan Didion, entitled On Going
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