How is betrayal an important theme in the short-story collection, My Father, Dancing?

Betrayal is an important themes because the women in each of Broyard's stories are betrayed by their fathers in some way. Note, they are not intentionally betrayed, but rather, they feel betrayed as they recognize, sometimes abruptly, that their fathers have never been what they imagined them to be. Now wise to their fathers' weaknesses, these young women feel both betrayed and abandoned. They experience the death of an ideal, the death of naivete, and the death of the father they immortalized in their minds.