Having been abandoned by her mother without any explanation at a very young age, Opal’s is crippled with heartache and confusion. He never sticks his head out into the world, so to speak, to see what is actually happening with her or with anything that ca uses conflict or change. She says that her father just hides inside his shell thinking about things he won’t express into words. Opal feels her father depicts the characteristics of a turtle. He stuggles through life in an attempt to forget his own pain and loss by focusing strictly on his job. The pain is just too deep for him, and he finds it extremely hard to discuss.
The internal conflict he faces is a direct result of his inability to share anything with Opal about her mother. Opal's father loves his daughter, but he handles his own heartbreak by focusing all of his time on his church responsibilities, but he falls short in his role as a single dad. At one point in the story, he is faced with having the pound come to get Winn Dixie, but he couldn’t go through with it after witnessing the devastation of his daughter losing her only friend. In fact, when Opal first talks to her father about keeping Winn Dixie, he emphatically says no.
He is unaware of the heartbreak Opal is experiencing as she just continues to go through the motions of life motherless. Opal’s father, the preacher, is known to delve into his work with his church, however, he has become a master of relational avoidance behaviors with his daughter. To further complicate her life, Opal doesn’t have friends, but she wants so much to feel like any other girl her age. They live in an all adult trailer park with a “zero pet” policy. She lives solely with her father whom she refers to as the preacher. Opal Buloni, the main character, begins the story as a lonely young girl who has been abandoned by her mother. This conflict leads the reader on a journey experiencing disappointment filled with broken hearts to taking chances, love, loyalty, and genuine devotion. What is the conflict in Because of Winn Dixie? By Kathy Herrin, Ed.S There is both external and internal conflict in Kate DiCamillo’s award winning novel, Because of Winn Dixie.
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