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I found her parents, especially her mother, so infuriating!
The epitome of a sociopath. She did not care about how her treatment of others reflected on her at all. Or maybe she liked being cruel. The father seemed to live in hubric denial.
Not one act of kindness from the woman, not one, not even to her husband.
It didn't surprise me they were all victim to slum lords and price gouging shop keepers, people can be so clueless.
It wasn't the poverty that got me angry, it was the cruelty and hubris.
Did it ever occur to any of them to read a fricken book on how to live, how to eat, how to manage money? Again, hubris. I know many very well educated people who think they know better or don't need to self educate about mundane things.
The mother seemed to me like she really didn't want children but was expected to have them because of that time but she had them knowing that she didn't need to look after them. She had no clue on how to raise them. They became a burden to her.
I'm now thinking she may have had post partum depression
I kept going argh because they left their home town, they should have stayed where they knew people and had better government support
But maybe the husband burned his bridges and no one they knew wanted anything to do with them. I am reminded it was strangers who helped him, people he didn't know from his regiment and people he didn't know from his school.