My interpretation of Allison’s relationship with her dad is of those unsolved and unanswered attachment and of awkwardness. Allison’s feeling toward her dad is not a simple attitude. Instead they are mixed feelings of dissatisfaction and also at the same time the search of approval.

Allison and Her dad shares the kind of world that no one else in the family can approach in the same way. Both of their homosexuality separates them in a world of their own and makes the boundary to the others outside. They share the same kind of interest such as their understanding and appreciation of many complicated philosophers and authors. They also share the same kind of taste in manliness such as muscularity and clothing styles.

Their conflict comes in how they act on these preferences. Allison’s father wants to accomplish his wants and interests through Allison, who in her own wants to be like man, refuses it.

They coexist in the harmony of shared interests and also dissonance caused from their different sexuality.