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Grace Paley's short story "A conversation with my Father," is a story of a patriarch relationship between a father and his daughter. The father in this story has made a last request for his daughter to "write a simple story just once more" (26) before he passes away. The father's idea of a simple story is in the same format as those stories written by well known male authors. Paley uses symbolism and character to emphasize the patriarch relationship. The father has a patriarchic ideology by telling his daughter how to write, and by always getting the last word in during arguments between the father and the daughter. The father's character in the story mirrors a patriarch. A patriarch is an "old man who is venerated by a group and whose opinions have great influence or authority" (Merit Students Dictionary 738). The reader is introduced to the father at...

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