This story is about Anna and her struggles with her deteriorating family. Also, she's conflicted (at first) on whether or not she should pull the plug on her dying father. We learn that in their family there was a split between he sisters, with Anna siding with the father and her sister with the mother. We learn more about the family as the story goes on and in the end, Anna decides to take her father off child support.
I think the best part of the story was the scene when Anna's father cuts himself. It shows us his personality. He knows he is severely injured, but stays calm and keeps his head for his daughter because he knows that if he freaks out a little bit in front of her, then she would be more hurt than him. That scene does more showing than telling and that's what I like about it.
The other scenes, however, tell/summarize more often than show. "I was punished for things I did't do simply because Mom didn't believe Karen could do anything wrong," and, "Mom and I got into massive fights when I was in high school--the kind with screaming and stomping and accusations and crying. It wasn't pretty." Here you are telling us about their relationship without really showing us.
I would like to see that characters more rounded as well. The mom is kind of a jerk and she kind of stays a jerk. The father is kind of perfect, and he stays perfect. The closest to rounded characters are the two sisters who decided to finally talk to each other.
Also a song! YAY! About death and stuff. Aw...
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