forgive me if I've already made this exact post, but I want to talk about Chloe and Lola and the very different opinions they have about Glarn. I think that Chloe would be more critical of him, seeing her own "shortcomings" in his actions and being incredibly defensive of her mother and the unfair position she was put in. Lola, on the other hand, is more understanding of Glarn's perspective, and feels that she would do much of the same if it were her.
Chloe sees Glarn as a total deadbeat. She is conscious of the injustice of his abduction and forced impregnation, but she feels that he should have put aside his feelings on it and been there to raise Chloe and Lola. She also blames him entirely for foisting the two of them onto Glabe, who she views as devoid of flaws and fault (and to an extent, agency). For Chloe, Glabe being her mother is a given. There is no universe in which she doesn't give up her life to raise these girls she has no real responsibility for.
At the same time, she sees a lot of herself in this image of Glarn she has invented. She knows herself to be unable to commit in relationships and in her work, and she hates this about herself. She both wants and doesn't want to be "tied down," and she blames this contradictory desire on Glarn and sees his absence as proof that he shared her affliction.
Lola also sees a lot of herself in Glarn, because truly he is more of an imagined presence than a real, living human being to the both of them. They know he is their father, and they know what a father generally should be to them, but they have never met him and Glabe hardly ever talks about him.
Lola, as I said, is more sympathetic to his situation and doesn't take it as personally as Chloe does. She has a lot of self hatred, too, but its more about what she is (part alien) than any perceived personality flaws. So while Chloe sees the both of them as victims of Glarn, Lola sees Glarn as a victim of the two of them. I think she also sometimes grants him extra leeway in reaction to Chloe's staunch distaste towards him. Part of her just wants to be contrary, and she kind of views herself as being the more reasonable one of the two of them.
This all sort of happens internally, though. I don't think they ever really talk about him unless confronted with and unable to avoid it.
