32 because her salary is not enough for her to stand-alone outside. “The incident in
the bust just was one concern. Phoebe didn’t earn enough to live on, and the simply could not stay by herself, not even for a weekend.” p. 448
e. Innocent
Phoebe lives in a simple way. She always does what she likes and she does not care to what she does not like. She never thinks deeply to something like
common people do. She just enjoys her life. Like what she has done with Mike, a new friend that she met in a bus. Phoebe innocently asks Caroline to go with him.
She does not care about Caroline’s reaction and also her anxiety when Caroline knows that Mike is a friend she found in a bus.
“He said, ‘Come home with me, Phoebe.’ And I said, ‘Okay, but I have to tell my mom first.’”
“What a good idea,” Caroline managed to say. “So can I? Can I go to Mike’s house tomorrow?”
“Where does Mike live?” Phoebe shrugged. “I don’t know. I see him on the bus.”
“Every day?” “Uh-huh. Can I go? I want to see his bird.” p. 446
Phoebe does not realize Caroline anxiety. She feels that there is no something wrong happens with her. When Caroline asks her to accompany her to visit
Mike’s home, she just agrees innocently. “Well, what if I come too?” Caroline said carefully. “What if we take the
bus together tomorrow? That way I can meet Mike, and I’ll come to see the bird. How’s that?
“That’s good,” Phoebe said, pleased, and finished her milk. p. 446-447 Phoebe’s innocent also showed when Paul tells about their mother to her.
Phoebe still cannot accept the truth that she is Norah’s daughter and she is Paul’s
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33 sister. For her, Caroline is her own mother. “‘Your mom is going to France.’
‘Yes,’ Paul said, though he tensed at her choice of words: your mother. A phrase you’d use for strangers, and of course they all were.” p. 500 Phoebe does not
know Paul’s feeling, she thinks that she has chosen the right words. The same words also Phoebe used when Paul invites her to go to their father grave. Phoebe
does not realize that the grave is her father’s. She said to Paul that she also will be sad if his father died. Phoebe thinks that her father is still alive because for her Al
is her father, not David Henry. “Our father,” he said.
“Our father,” she said, “who art in heaven hallowed by thy name.” “No,” he said, surprised.”Our father. My father. Yours.”
“Our father,” she repeated, and he felt a surge of frustration, for her words were agreeable, mechanical, of no significance in her life.
“You’re sad,” she observed, then. “if my father died, I’d be sad too.”
f. Inconsistent
