Every father hates to see there little girl grow up and when they are no longer daddies little girl. In the novel The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers and the short story "No More Lollipops" by Debra Adams both give a character that shows their special relationship with their father. The two relationships shown in theses two stories are similar and different in many ways.

In the novel The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, the character Mick and her father shared a special relationship that only a daughter and father could do. "But most of the time if anybody called her she just ran away from. That was for everybody except her dad"(83). Mick and her dad always had a special relationship. It was the type of relationship that you couldn’t explain, but knew how special it was. Mick and her father always had the one connection, but one day everything changed. "Afterward she felt older and as though she knew him as good as she could know any person"(84). The closer two people get the more they begin to understand each other, but Mick would never tell her father what she was thinking or about those hot summer nights that she went to the rich part of town to listen to music. As Mick gets older she begins to se her father in a new light. She realizes that "he’s lonesome and an old man" (85). When little kids are growing up they see their dad and mom in this kind of fantasy way. They see them as if they were a super hero or something amazing, but when they get older they see their parents for what they really are. It seems that kids don’t realize what they had with their mother or father until they lose it.

Ever little girl one time or another has had a special bond with their fathers. The bond always made the daughter or father stand out in either eye. Debra from "No More Lollipops" describes her bond with her father when they had late night snacks. "He would go to the foot of the stairs and say something just loud enough for me to here it" These types of bonds are one of a kind, but as time takes it toll the relationships just seem to fade away. NO one can say for sure when it exactly happened but one day they wake up and that special relationship between father and daughter is different, they are no longer daddies little girl. Before they were able to talk, joke, and basically just enjoy life when they were with their father, but no matter how hard any father tries their little girl some how in between the rides to kindergarten and the play dates becomes all grown up more.

Both Mick and Debra share the same common bond with their fathers as most daughters do. Mick and Debra growing up were always seeing their dad in this light. The light that makes him seem different from everyone else. Its hard to say when it happens, but one day you wake up and you see things in a new light. The light that shows you who your father or mother really is. Both Mick and Debra don’t know when it happened, they just, "I don’t know when, but one morning…" Even though Mick and Debra don’t have the same relationship they used to have when they were growing up doesn’t mean that their fathers don’t love them. It just means they hav3e a new bond between the two.

Both cases with Micka and Debra show what kind of relationship that most daughters share with not only their fathers, but also any member of their family. However, no bond no matter how special can last forever and one day it’s just different. Your no longer daddies little girl.