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Nately's Relationship With His Father
Nately’s relationship with his father is borderline obsessive. In, Love, Dad Nately religiously follows his father’s advice no matter how ridiculous and contradictory it may be. This “sound” advice includes dictating who he talks to, which schools he goes to, and even joining the war. Nately's blind faith allows him to be a product of his parents rather than an individual. The only thoughts that he is able to spew out are words which have already been fed to him. He is extremely sheltered in thought because he is surrounded by people who all think exactly the same way. To be specific these people are, “wealthy Episcopalian and Church of England graduates of Andover whose ancestors either descended lineally from the union of John Alden with
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