Post #12 Form B

“After all he’d put himself through, I couldn’t believe Dad had gone back to the booze.” (123)
This quote shows Jeannette’s father’s continuing fight with alcohol. Despite numerous attempts at quitting the disastrous habit, her father always went ‘back to the booze’. It got to the point where, for her 10th birthday, all she’d asked for from her father was for him to quit drinking. And he had. For a while. He quit and went through all of the withdrawal symptoms. He had had delusions and became quite sick. He spent an entire summer, a Nevadan summer, recuperating yet he was unable to return to the dirty habit once things went south in his life. This habit shaped a lot of Jeannette’s childhood because her father became quite violent once he was drunk and the habit sucked up all of the money the family had. They were nearly always poor once her father started on booze again.
“With Dad drinking again and no money coming in, Mom began to talk about moving east, to West Virginia, where Dad’s parents lived.” (123)
Once Jeannette’s father was drinking heavily it was impossible for him to keep a steady job so he spent the money they had and didn’t bring in any new money. These drunken sprees nearly always led to the family packing up and moving in hopes of a better outlook elsewhere. But the same situation was repeated over and over again.