Chapter 21-25

At the end of Ch. 23 Jim tells as story about his daughter. What is significant in that story and what does it reveal about Jim?
Jim has a daughter named Elizabeth who is four years old. In chapter 23 Jim tells the readers a story about Elizabeth. He says that one day he was trying to talk to his daughter but she didn't say anything back to Jim, she simply just smiled. Jim gets very frustrated and tries to talk to her again and repeating it even louder. Jim gets even more frustrated and slams the door shut. A little while later Jim realizes that she is deaf because of the scarlet fever. I thought it was very interesting how he talked about his daughter in this way. I feel as if he misses his daughter very much. This is the first time in the book that Jim goes into depth and tells a story about one of his family members. I think that this shows that Jim not only misses his daughter but feels badly about the way he treated her by yelling even louder when she couldn't hear him. Jim may also be homesick. We know this because this is one of the first times he tells a story about Elizabeth.