The suppression of women through marriage, lack of education, and how they were raised to act and expected to behave all created a monster of depravity and corruption that was expressed time and time again by and through different people of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. ...
Hale's mother frequently told her stories of her father's drinking and abuse but Janet believed that her father did not fit the description her mother fed her: "My father, the man I knew, did not resemble the violent monster of her horror stories in any way except for the fact that he did drink." ...
The author also goes into depth about past generations of the Bosket family dating all the way back to 1896 discussing the harsh realities that each generation Bosket had to go through and what turned them into the monster that soon developed Willie Bosket. ...
