1990. Choose a novel or play that depicts a conflict between a parent (or a parental figure) and a son or daughter. Write an essay in which you analyze the source of the conflict and explain how the conflict contributes to the meaning of the work. Avoid plot summary.

    

     In the novel Legend of a Suicide are two main conflicts that make the novel what it is. There is Man vs. Man, Man vs. Self, and the main conflict would be the conflict between the father and his son. The story is based on the conflict and is what it is built off of.

     The conflict started because of the father and the mother getting a divorce and the father abandoning his son. Abandonment in any person’s life takes a toll of someone. I was abandoned by my father and wondered for the longest time why he didn't want, why I wasn't good enough for his love, and why he avoided ever returning my letters. Over time people handle lose differently. I got over the fact that my father never bothered to call and never wanted to see his own first born child. Roy on the other hand was not as strong as I was and never had the desire to see his father.

    He was not a very nice man. Roy's father was in need of mental help and never felt that anyone loved him. He searched in all the wrong places for love, when he had loved ones. Through his searching he hurt his son emotionally and his son was never able to recover from that. Because of his father’s mental illness there was conflict that was bound to accrue between the two.

     Roy did not want to visit or see his father, but he went to visit him because he thought it would make his mother happy. He left to never return again. After Roy's death the father searches for something to fill the void that is now present in his life. He turned to prostitution in order to no be alone, which shows again how the father is the reason for the conflict in to book. His character is very unlikable.