The black telephone's off at the root, the voices just can't worm through. She realizes that she has given up hope of living. She cant hear anyone anymore trying to tell her to live. She doesnt want to listen to them anymore. If I've killed one man, I've killed two--The vampire who said he was you and drank my blood for a year, seven years, if you want to know. She describes her husband as a Vampire. It is similar to the way she thinks of her father. She compares them with symbols that are both evil. Daddy, you can lie back now. There's a stake in your fat black heart and the villagers never liked you. This shows the comparison of her husband and her father. She describes them both now as vampires. She expresses a feeling similar to that of the general German population, many of which disliked the ways of Nazis. They are dancing and stamping on you. They always knew it was you. The people that knew her father didnt like him, nor did they like the ways of the Luftwaffe. They are glad that he and the powers of the Nazis are dead and are celebrating. Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through. This shows that her life of worrying and being scared of her father is over. She has been running from the thought of him her entire life. Sylvia has resolved all her problem with him and finally managed to leave the life that she knew behind.It is apparent that Sylvia wishes to introduce her readers to what life would have been like for the women and children within Nazi Germany. The upbringing and treatment was often harsh and mentally destructive. Being raised in a militarily based home, she was treated as if she were a burden to her father. She often relates her own persecution by her father to the discrimination Germany had toward the Jews. Sylvia had many struggles in her life that were cause by either her father, Germany, or her husband. All of which left her with a feeling of insignificance, as if they would have been h...
