The card game also continues the theme of games, which his mother plays continually both to mask reality and to give Jack a road map to navigate their peculiarly surreal (your very apt word) reality. Another reference to never really knowing another person. The card game was interesting because after saying he could recognize his mother, even with a mask on, he failed to recognize her or his father. And Jack certainly did not know his parents and in the end anything he knew of his father he forgot. I don't know what to make of it either, but the mask symbolism reminds us we never really know one another. I just read "My Father's Mask" yesterday, and not to be too literary or anything, it creeped me out. ![]()
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