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…showed last 75 words of 1506 total…family. Seeing Hughes as a monster, Plath wrote "Daddy" in an attempt to overcome her feelings for him while exorcizing the memory of her father's equally painful though unintentional abandonment. Despite the mixing of father and husband in the antagonist of "Daddy" it is obvious which man Sylvia Plath is addressing with the poem's last line, written during the breakup of her marriage and three months before her suicide: "Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through" (80).