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Robert Inman’s novel Dairy Queen Days follows the traditions of other Southern authors by creating vivid characters with a distinct cultural view. This 5 page paper provides an overview of the issue presented and relates it to the current literature. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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life of Trout Moseley, a teenager who struggles with his development and social perspective in the midst of considerable life changes. Trouts family, like many families in the American
South, is broken, challenged and dysfunctional, and Trouts own perspective is influenced by his role in this family. Trouts family has more than the typical problems. "His
mother is mentally ill, his father is a Methodist preacher undergoing a midlife crisis" (Johnson 10L). Conflicting views of his father early in the novel also shape how Trout
perceives both his role and his fathers role in the family. His father, Joe Pike Moseley, was clearly a man Trout struggled to understand. "Trout had known for
a good while that Joe Pike was really two people-the big man you saw and another, smaller one who was tucked away somewhere inside" (Inman 8). Trout has both admiration
and concern for his father, who is someone Trout does not understand but struggles to fit into the scope of the family. His fathers curious actions often result in
embarrassment and personal reflection for Trout, and Trout seems to take on a social voice based on family comparisons. One of the rich and interesting scenes that reflect Trouts
sense of conflict has to do with his fathers participation in an Easter Sunday service at the Ohatchee Methodist Church, a time when Trouts father seems to loose his composure
and his perspective. "He closed the Bible with a thump. He drew in a deep breath. Then he walked quickly down from the pulpit and up the
aisle, the black robe flapping about him, and out the door, looking neither left nor right. Not a soul inside the church moved. After a moment they heard
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