I appreciate the growth of the kids as they live in Welch. It becomes apparent that since their parents can’t really support them, the Walls kids have had to learn to provide for themselves. In school, the kids seemed to have no friends. The kids had to scrounge through the garbage in order to be able to eat during school. Poor Jeannette had an unnecessary amount of sexual harassment issues as well, before and while she was at Welch. Lori essentially became the prominent family figure to the children. As the oldest child, she was the one that started to have thoughts about the future. She and Jeannette had decided on the idea to save up money so that they can go to New York when they graduate. All of the Walls kids had to get jobs in order to survive, Jeannette babysat, worked at a jewelry store, and wrote for the school paper (although that wasn’t exactly a paid job). Lori took art commissions and Brian did manual labor. When their mom left to renew her license, Lori went to an art camp; leaving Jeannette as the authority in the house. This duration of time shows how manipulative her dad is, Jeannette had a specific budget planned out and it was perfectly able to support her family while her mom was gone. Her dad keeps manipulating Jeannette to give him money for alcohol, and she finds it hard to decline. After giving away too much money, her dad comes back to her and asks her to help him gain all of the lost money back. He takes her with him as he swindles a man named Robbie out of his money. Robbie got upset for losing his money, but he asks if Jeannette wanted to go to his apartment upstairs and listen to some music. Expecting her dad to help her, he just tells Robbie “Don’t do anything I wouldn’t do”. The two (Jeannette and Robbie) go upstairs and, as Jeannette expected, he tried to undress her. He gets beaten away by Jeannette and also got disgusted by the alarming amount of wounds and scars that Jeannette had amassed over the years. Expecting her dad to beat up Robbie for trying to assault her, Jeannette tells him what had happened. Rex replies with “I’m sure he just pawed you some, I knew you could handle yourself.” How would you feel if you were in Jeannette’s shoes, having whatever trust you had left in your parent seemingly thrown out of the window?