They obviously feel sympathy towards their child as well as worried at the fact that their child could possibly die. The emotion invoked in the parent of a child cannot be felt by a doctor that is not emotionally connected to that child. This is why the doctor could never get the same response from the readers as a parent telling the story could. Since it is not told from their point of view I instead have feelings of anger towards both parents for not helping the doctor out more and for the father just becoming angry and ordering his wife to get out since she clearly was not helping. If they had told the story it would have been obvious that they knew their daughter and they were hurting from not knowing what was wrong with her, as any parent would most likely feel in this situation. Where the doctor made it seem as if the parents were not at all helping, if told from their point of view it may seem the exact opposite. That in fact they were doing all the hard work and the way the doctor was acting was what was making their daughter unwilling. There is no possible way to know, however, since it is not told from the perspective of the
They obviously feel sympathy towards their child as well as worried at the fact that their child could possibly die. The emotion invoked in the parent of a child cannot be felt by a doctor that is not emotionally connected to that child. This is why the doctor could never get the same response from the readers as a parent telling the story could. Since it is not told from their point of view I instead have feelings of anger towards both parents for not helping the doctor out more and for the father just becoming angry and ordering his wife to get out since she clearly was not helping. If they had told the story it would have been obvious that they knew their daughter and they were hurting from not knowing what was wrong with her, as any parent would most likely feel in this situation. Where the doctor made it seem as if the parents were not at all helping, if told from their point of view it may seem the exact opposite. That in fact they were doing all the hard work and the way the doctor was acting was what was making their daughter unwilling. There is no possible way to know, however, since it is not told from the perspective of the