Teenage Wasteland By Anne Tyler

Teenage Wasteland By Anne Tyler

"Teenage Wasteland" by Anne Tyler is focused on two characters: Donny, an emotionally unstable teenager; and Daisy, Donny's mother, who is trying her best to help get her child on the right path. Although, the main character begins the story as an innocent child, Tyler displays how the confusion and lack of communication devolves Donny. Donny feels his mother Daisy and his father are too controlling and give him no freedom. While his mother on the hand, thinks she can control him entirely. As a child, Donny was a very blonde–haired youngster almost white. As he grew older and went through different events in his life his hair turned dark. The more stressful situations Donny encounters the darker a person overall he becomes. As he progresses from a toddler to a young adult different outside sources such as school, family, and friends affect Donny's personality and his self esteem. For example, most of Donny's childhood, he felt the world revolved around him and any decision he made. This is when he began degressing and becoming depressed he was not the center of intention anymore altering his life as he knew it. Then as his sister Amanda was born, he saw all the attention his parents once gave him dwindle away. As a result of feeling unnoticed or unimportant, Donny began acting out in school. His mother feels embarrassed because she was once a school teacher and could not believe one of her own would be acting out in class. Donny's principal decided it would be a good idea

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