In the excerpt from A Few Notes for Orpheus, the narrator experiences a distant relationship with his father due to his father's lack of attention and care for him in the past. . Due to his father's lack of understanding of his own son, the narrator had not visited his father in two years and had therefore "forgotten what he looked like." This implies that the narrator has not forgotten his past conflict with his father, which caused him to not want to reconcile with his father. Due to his lack of communication and association with his father, this further deteriorates their relationship, highlighting the increasing isolation between his father and him. While visiting his father with his daughter Cathy, the narrator attempts to have a calm and peaceful conversation with his father. However, his efforts are immediately devalued by his father, as his father speaks to him in a brusque and insensitive manner while taking Cathy away and the two "walk away, holding her hand and talking". This illustrates the extreme seriousness of the lack of proximity