Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-24918243-20140612053158/@comment-24957024-20140613161047

Booboofinger wrote: Basically there could be two possibilities here:

The first is that he is pretty much removed from the rest of the family. He's usually up when everyone is asleep and vice-versa. Also, even though his daughter likes to read in his offce and hang out with him, he is usually so involved in his work he does not really give her much attention.

You could also argue that he is well aware of what is going on and feels that it's an important test/lesson his daughter has to go through in order to take over his position when she grows up. Um no. This girl's like, six. I don't think six year olds are capable of making cereal in the morning, much less going through a nearly deadly trial. Not to mention this imp was screwing with her mom's self control, this man's wife. And then there's the dog (which I think the neighbor would have taken to the vet to have fed through a tube) and the cat (which would have been a pretty big sign to the dad that "Hey man, you might wanna look into this.") You're saying this man was so willing to have his daughter handle something herself as opposed to stepping in and saving about four (+the potential threat of it killing his wife and daughter) living beings?