How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
So I switched on the light to make the magazine picture. The daughter welcoming the dad home, both of them so happy in the picture you could practically smell the pot roast. (4.15)
Evie adores Joe and just wants them all to look like the perfect family. Now that the war's over and he's home, she thinks that maybe it can finally happen… but their Florida trip throws a wrench in her plans.
Quote #2
I always wanted a father. Any kind. A strict one, a funny one, one who bought me pink dresses, one who wished I was a boy. One who traveled, one who never got out of his Morris chair. Doctor, lawyer, Indian chief. I wanted shaving cream in the sink and whistling on the stairs. (9.2)
No wonder Evie fell in love with Joe right away. She clearly was so starved for a father figure that she would have taken to anyone who married her mom and called her his daughter.
Quote #3
Good-bye, Evie Plunkett, I kept saying to myself. Evie Spooner. Evie Spooner. The new name tasted like strawberry jam. I would get that, and a dad, too. (9.20)
When Bev and Joe get married, Evie has no ambivalent feelings about it. She's not the fairytale stepdaughter who stomps her foot and hates her new stepparent—instead she fully embraces Joe as a part of their family.