A Brief Review Of Pat Carr's Death Of A Confederate Colonel

“I don't think she cares. She doesn't like to hear about the war, so she gives me all the letters to keep after I read them to her” (Carr 88). Pat Carrs piece, “Death of a Confederate Colonel” demonstrates a mother, Geneva, treating her daughter, Saranell, very poorly. While Saranell faces many obstacles and hard decisions when it it comes to her mother involving money, parties and going on dates with other men when she has a husband, she tries to get passed all that even when her mother gives her no reason to. Saranel is in desperate need of a mother who loves her unconditionally and shows her on a daily basis, but Geneva doesn't seem to be phased by it and never thinks twice before she put things above her daughter that aren't as important. This story teaches a lesson on a real life perspective, that it is better to lose a parent through death than thru emotional abandonment.

Geneva is brat and is very sarcastic and seems to get away with everything but mostly she is very hard-headed and treats the people who care about her the most very poorly and pushes them away. When Geneva is on her deathbed, she rants to Sarnelle about her marriage. “I wasn't fair to your

““But I personally won't set foot in town until this war nonsense is over. You can't imagine how tiresome it is without a single presentable man in sight.” She laughed. “But of course, you can't imagine it, can you? You'll have to be older to care whether handsome men are present or not”” (Carr 84). Geneva is sidetracked by men and considering to stay out of town until all the men come back from war. She never thought to ask or think about her husband at war, but all the other men and when they will come back. Saranell feels Geneva is being rude when she gives her a hard time because she wouldn't know as much about men like her mother. Many people tend to put things that aren't as important above the things that are important, just as Geneva did to