Saturday night, my dad and I attended our fourth annual father/daughter ball, and it was a blast. Dinner, a great speaker, dessert (the best part of the night! … I kid, I kid!), dancing, and games (we won one ‘How well do you know your father/daughter’ game and a raffle prize!). I had a great time. As I was spending an amazing night with my amazing dad, I started thinking about my favorite fictional father/daughter duos and decided to share them with you all!
Jane Austen’s Mr. Bennet is by far my favorite fictional father. He’s so understanding and patient (he has to be to be married to Mrs. Bennet!) and his relationships with his daughters are unique. I love Donald Sutherland in the 2005 P&P movie.
Robert Quimby – otherwise known as Beezus, Ramona, and Roberta’s pretty awesome dad. (Is it just me or does Mr. Quimby’s facial expression look like Mr. Bennet’s in the pictures I chose?) Robert Quimby has a great sense of humor and despite having lost his job, he stays positive for his girls. I love that about him.
Best thing about P.L. Travers’ Mr. Banks from Mary Poppins? He’s really not fictional. If you’ve never read the book ‘Mary Poppins,’ GO GET IT. The movie does not do it justice, though I do love Julie Andrews. Then watch the best movie ever made, Saving Mr. Banks and WATCH IT. I was bawling like a baby at the end, by oh goodness, it was incredible.
The Long Way Home, the second book in the Family Tree series by Ann M. Martin, is my favorite of the three-book series (soon to be a fourth!) because I love Dana’s father, Zander. Though he makes mistakes, he loves his girls and his family and Dana clearly adores him. Zander Barnes reminded me bit of Mr. Banks, and there’s tear stains on my copy of this book, too.
These four fathers each remind me a bit of my own dad, and I cried with them and laughed with them and loved them! I really recommend you to go read all of the books they’re in; the books are fabulous, and I promise you’ll fall in love with the dads just as much as I did!
Who are your favorite fictional fathers? Why do you like them?
OMG i LOVED Saving Mr. banks!!!
If you like that kind of movie then you will also like a movie called “finding neverland'” its about the original writer of peter pan, this story is about how he gets his idea of doing this. I hope that made sense! Kinda hard to describe, but its similar to saving mr banks!
ME TOO!!!!
Ooh, now that sounds amazing, too. I’ll have to look into finding it soon! 🙂
OH MY GOD MR. BANKS IS AMAZING AND I WILL ALWAYS LOVE HIM. I must admit that I haven’t seen Saving Mr. Banks (yet!) but Mary Poppins is my go-to “for bad days” film, and my mom watched SMB on the plane, came home, barged into my room, and DEMANDED that I watch it, so it must be good… 😉
Great to see you blogging again, Emily!
Haha, you MUST! I know you’ll love it 😉
Thanks, Topaz!!
My favorite fictional father/daughters are probably Nick Hawthorne and Emma Hawthorne (from the Mother-Daughter Book Club) and…um…I really like Robert Quimby and Ramona as well. 🙂 One of my all-time fave movies- and of course, the book was great! 😀
The Long Way Home killed me! I usually don’t get that worked up about books, but I literally threw that one against the wall. I like Nick and Emma Hawthorne a lot, and probably also Betsy and her father (whatever his name was!) in the Betsy-Tacy series. Oh! and the March girls and their father, and a lot of others that I can’t think of. 😛
The father/daughter ball sounds like so much fun. I agree that Mr. Bennet is an awesome father. Not only is he humorous and patient, but he also knows the true characters of his daughters better than Mrs. Bennet does. I’ve never seen Saving Mr. Banks, but I would love to someday.