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Is there such thing as a perfect family? And if there is, then do they not have problems or are their problems just minor bumps in the road? If there is a family that is perfect the Bedloes believe that it is them. As said by Anne Tyler, “They believe that every part of their lives was absolutely wonderful. It wasn’t just an act, either. They really did believe it” (Linton 1). However though, in the novel Saint Maybe, Anne Tyler argues that even “perfect families” have their shadows which need to be brought into light.
It is hard to see someone’s shadow when it is in the middle of the day and the sun is shining straight down on you. As time goes on, people begin to get older, and the sun starts to shine on your back you begin to see your shadow, the shadow of non perfection. However when you just look on the good side as Mrs. Bedloe does “She prefers to look on the bright side” (Tyler 225), as said by Ian. It is always to feel like everything is perfect when you just look at the positive. When you grow up in an environment such as this one in the Bedloe family you stereotypically will be the same person as Ian. “He is a seventeen year old described as ‘handsome and easy going, quick to make friends, fond of a good time’,” overall he is a confident teenager who appears to have everything he needs and wants and is on the path of becoming a successful person. Ian has a loving middle class family, a supportive community, a girl friend, a pitcher on the baseball team, and a brother, Danny, who he could just talk to, and a strong conscience. The only thing he did not have which was not that crucial to the Bedloe household was a strong religious up bringing. Ian was the youngest child, with an older brother Danny, who works at the post office and marries Lucy, and an older sister, Claudia, who is married and names her children alphabetically. Both of the Bedloe parents are college educated and teachers or as they refer to themselves, educators. The Bedloes to...
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