她让孩子们不高兴。她告诉他们一个非常糟糕的故事,讲述了她小时候的宠物。宠物故事有多糟糕?好吧,克莱尔说,知道这属于我们家庭类别中的唯一,它杀死了她的猫,可以在睡眠中杀死我的母亲。我会说这对几次噩梦很好,不是吗?
(She upset the kids. She told them a really awful story about a pet she had when she was little. How bad could a pet story be? Well, Clea said, knowing this fell in the only in our family category, it eviscerated her cats and could have killed my mother in her sleep. I'd say that's good for a few nightmares, wouldn't you?)
在故事中,一个名叫Clea的角色反映了一个使孩子们创伤的家庭成员分享的令人不安的故事。这个故事,关于过去的一只宠物,被描述为令人恐惧和令人震惊,尤其是考虑到它涉及有关Clea猫的命运以及涉及母亲的近乎致命事件的图形细节。这表明,即使是宠物等看似无辜的话题也可以在家庭叙事中发生黑暗的转变。
Clea承认这样一个令人不安的故事肯定会给孩子们带来噩梦。轶事强调了家庭故事的复杂性及其对年轻家庭成员的潜在影响,揭示了几年后甚至几年后的深度体验可以影响观念。它突出了有趣的童年故事与记忆中的那些故事之间的细微界限,在童年的纯真中蒙上了阴影。