You Are Each Other's Bad Bargain Not Mine

Towards the end of the poem, the daughter started to progressively forgive her financially negligent and emotionally abusive father. By the end of the poem, the daughter evenly puts the blame on both parents when she says “you were each other’s bad bargain, not mine”. Although the majority of the complications came from the father, the narrator concluded that those problems must be kept between the mother and father because as a child, she should not be left to stress about their grown-up issues on her own. At the end, the daughter asked what she was even collecting. She decisively accepted that she will not get anywhere in life by dwelling over a situation that cannot be mended, so she ended up letting go of the past she had with her deceased