The more she talked, the more I started to connect the things she was saying to the ways my dad was acting. ... He made me feel so guilty saying I was the reason our family was falling apart. ... Growing up with that in my life has made me realize many things. ... Today, these things are all still a struggle for me. ...
One of the first things Ruth mentions about her mother is her love for everything exotic. ... At times she is overly enthusiastic and full of life and optimism, the next, she's used up and unable to accomplish the smallest of things. ... She wants to move, and eventually does, but she experiences a lot of difficulty doing so because she knows her family may easily fall apart without her. ... Her open-mindedness is one very positive aspect of her personality that she gained from her mother and possibly overshadows the negatives; were it not for her willingness to try new things, Ruth ...
"My mother and I have a pretty good relationship, if a bit erratic" they do fight occasionally about what Josie calls "ridiculous things" but Josie feels obligated to protect her mother, because her father never could. ... "It makes me feel like I will never be apart of their society and I hate that because I am just as smart as they are" Her illegitimacy really does get to her and Marchetta expresses Josie's anger when people comment about it very clearly. ... She develops by realising that she cannot fall in love at this age. ... They do not get along very well and this is because t...
