Review Dusty Attic

Dusty Attic

Death and a dusty attic was it the end? More like just the beginning. Cathy Dollanganger, the second of four children was forced in an early adulthood because of one horrific event. In the book, Flowers in the Attic by VC Andrews, Cathy Dollanganger changes emotionally and socially.

Cathy changes the most emotionally. All throughout the story the story Cathy has to go through many different difficulties and emotionally, it makes her stronger inside and out. On the day of her father, Christopher Dollanganger's, thirty-sixth surprise birthday party, anticipation for the father to arrive grows stronger and after a few hours of waiting, a man in a white car pulls up into the driveway and come to the door. The man says to Cathy's mother, "' Mrs. Dollanganger,' he began in a flat voice that sent immediate panic into my heart, 'we're terribly sorry but there's been an accident on Greenfield Highway' " (17). This shows the first of many struggles Cathy had to endure. This is a struggle because this is when the Dollanganger's are forced out of their home and into the now widowed mother's parents are. In this situation they are not living anymore but held captive, where the rules are based on a dictatorship of the grandmother and they are forced to play in an old dusty attic. Over time, the days seem to get longer and more boring, to pass time one day, the four children, Cathy, Chris, the oldest brother, and the twins, Cory and Carrie, decide to play hide and go seek; in the process the youngest boy, Cory, has still not been found and will not answers the yells for him to come out. "I spun around to see Chris lifting Cory's small, inert form from a trunk that had latched and kept him inside" (157). When this happens to the kids Cathy is not the one breaking down but the one to take charge. Her "motherly instinct" kicks in and is what causes Cory to live. Before her father died she would have broken down and given in, due to the events that have occurred she is a lot stronger emotionally, and this helps and nearly wrecks some of her social connections with her family.

As well as changing emotionally, she also changes socially. Cathy is a daddy's girl to the core and when her father dies it breaks her down, "' Cathy, it is going to be alright'" (71). Her father, Christopher, tries to reassure