Mario, the Bolex, and Avril on sadness — "My father said his father showed…"
My father said his father showed very little emotion or anger or sadness about this, though. That he somehow couldn’t. My father said his father was frozen, and could feel emotion only when he was drunk. He would apparently get drunk four times a year, weep about his life, throw my father through the living room window, and disappear for several days, roaming the countryside of L’Islet Province, drunk and enraged.
Context
The depressive lineage narrated as anecdote: the ruined potato-farmer grandfather "frozen" inside, feeling only when drunk — Avril narrating three generations of frozen affect as other people's pathology while performing the family cheer that keeps her own place in the cycle invisible.