Beautifully Dark

Something about the way the book is narrated is unsettling, and I have no idea how this mood was embedded into the text. I might be making this up, but the book manages to keep stuff dark and stuff. If I am making this up, it's probably because I read this at night, when human beings are most emotional and susceptible to stuff.

There's this part when Claudia is given a "beautiful" doll, a white doll with blue eyes and blonde hair. Claudia starts breaking it apart, attempting to "examine it to see what it was that all the world said was lovable." Then the narration goes on to say that she would have rather wanted to be asked what she would have wanted for Christmas, at which she would have answered that she would have wanted to hear her father play the violin among other things. Pretty heavy. It's the true beauty that Claudia wanted to find, not the false one found in the doll, which when taken apart, revealed the "mere metal roundness" within.

Fun Fact: This is the roundest object on earth. It is an exactly 1kg silicon sphere.

Along with this, we see a lot of violence, ignorance, and the likes (both explicitly and implicitly) as we're constantly given descriptions of beatings and blatant English mistakes (that I assume, in the character's standpoint, was not meant to be one) such as referring to that one thing women do once a month (shopping spree, obviously) as "ministratin'".

How better to end this segment of the book by asking "how do you get somebody to love you?" and not getting an answer back.