Throughout Amy 's life her father relentlessly monitors her physical appearance with the "intensity of a pimp" (133), he believes that a woman 's physical beauty is her greatest asset. Amy is naturally a strong independent woman and in response to her father 's "vigilance and pressure" (133) she decides not to be angry with her father, but simply to get even. Amy is naturally beautiful and she pretends to have gained weight and wears make-up to appear as a battered woman in a magazine photo shoot. Amy also subjects her father to practical jokes attempting to make him look like a fool. Sedaris uses irony and sarcasm throughout this dark essay. Amy emerges as a complex and obscure character that endlessly manipulates her well-meaning father, thus the reader sympathizes greatly with him and not with
Throughout Amy 's life her father relentlessly monitors her physical appearance with the "intensity of a pimp" (133), he believes that a woman 's physical beauty is her greatest asset. Amy is naturally a strong independent woman and in response to her father 's "vigilance and pressure" (133) she decides not to be angry with her father, but simply to get even. Amy is naturally beautiful and she pretends to have gained weight and wears make-up to appear as a battered woman in a magazine photo shoot. Amy also subjects her father to practical jokes attempting to make him look like a fool. Sedaris uses irony and sarcasm throughout this dark essay. Amy emerges as a complex and obscure character that endlessly manipulates her well-meaning father, thus the reader sympathizes greatly with him and not with