Parents are accountable of preparing daughters and sons; in order to be an example in their family and make them part of the progression, not the retrogression of the country. ... To be 18 years old does not mean that it is time to fly away from rules and suggestions made in home; it means that it is the time to apply ever more solidly what it has been learnt in home. ...
Or maybe during this period of time an epidemic swept through the town, rendering several of his children sick. ... This being his thought, he may have made many of his loans at this time to allow him to nurse his children, intending to pay it off when they got better. ... Was he so chauvinistic that he despised his daughter and her children? ...
He doesn't play a very important role in Ruth's life and is hardly mentioned in the book; almost the only time he is mentioned is after Ruth brings her boyfriend, Doug, home for the first time. ... Ruth's mother craves so much attention from her daughter and thus willingly takes any attention that Ruth might have paid to her father. ...
