“Teenage Wasteland”

1. The story is from third person limited omniscient point of view.
2. The opening paragraph of the story signifies not only the physical but in internal changes taking place in Donnie as he grows up.
3. It leads her to let make decisions for her regarding her children and their discipline because she trusts others more than she trusts herself.
4. Daisy goes from being skeptical of Kyle to completely relying on him to being jealous to being suspicious of him and in the end she question whether the reason why Donnie left or if he is the reason the he stayed as long as he did.
5. It shows that her parents are more concerned with Donnie.
6. I would describe Tyler’s presentation of Daisy as both satirical and sympathetic. He seems sympathetic with her struggle with parenting Donnie but satirical towards her personality and self-consciousness.