Who is Father from My Life and what is their importance? My_Life_(novel) English & Literature Father | My Life

Father returns from war four years later in a purple moment. The narrator writes her name on the first page of every one of his books. Father fills apothecary jars with sea glass from beaches. The narrator borrows Father's typewriter and runs through the holes in her memory. Father provides her with the right phrase about beauty and the wonder of books: "Individuality is animated by its sense of the infinite" (page 49). When his children are small, Father suggests that his family go camping, but the outdoors frighten him in the dark. Father says that painters are happier than writers after he switches himself. Father is able to imagine Gertrude Stein.