Talk:The Closet Reconfiguration/@comment-104.169.36.191-20150504011002

I believe they all contiained elements of the letter except for sheldon and that would be synonomous with his inability to recognize a social situation devoid of him as the nucleus. The other stories were orchastrated in a way that it gave each character to invoke a part of what they would want to hear if it was their letter from an absent father. Bernadette knows the joy of seeing a father watch a graduation and being validated since howard rarely is validated for his engineering degree (devoid of a doctorate). Penny loves drama (and remember in precious episodes had daddy issues)and would be excited to believe that her dad if absent would have a heroes reason for not being in her life. Not that she had done anything wrong but rather he had failed but with good reasons however His doing not hers. (in other episodes, penny worried she had not been the son her dad wanted). Leonard values family because he never felt he was part of a normal nuclear family. There were no emotions and tangible demonstrations of family and understands what it is not to have that in his own life. Raj has a very "peterpan" mentality to life and wishes his own father would stop being so serious about him getting married and becoming an "adult" and also learning to speak to women is a sign of maturation which was what i felt the reason he couldnt speak. Raj wants life to be light and simple and love to be fun...he isnt capable of that yet in this episode. so i believe they all represent the cast and at the same time culminate the gifts they actually give to howard in a comprehensive Father Figure as such. At the same time Howard realizes that he has everything a father didnt give him through his own Family of Friends.