All of the maternal figures present in this tory had their husbands stolen away so it is clear to see that the mother wants to hold on to the only thing she has left: her daughter. The mother tries her best to deter the narrator from the lifestyle her paternal figures partake in as “most of the information [she has] about [her] great-grandfather came from [her] mother, who got it from her mother” (93) Both the mother and grandmother try their hardest to worsen the idea of the actions of the father and grandfather. Regardless of this fact the narrator refuses to believe that this is simply drunken tomfoolery and instead attributes it to a powerful force, a force not of obsession, but of ambition: “...a powerful force must have held sway over him, something more profound than the miseries of drink or the harsh imaginings of his abandoned wife” (67). The mother fails to protect all she has left as the daughter decides to practice gypsy necessity. The daughter is lost, as she desires to
All of the maternal figures present in this tory had their husbands stolen away so it is clear to see that the mother wants to hold on to the only thing she has left: her daughter. The mother tries her best to deter the narrator from the lifestyle her paternal figures partake in as “most of the information [she has] about [her] great-grandfather came from [her] mother, who got it from her mother” (93) Both the mother and grandmother try their hardest to worsen the idea of the actions of the father and grandfather. Regardless of this fact the narrator refuses to believe that this is simply drunken tomfoolery and instead attributes it to a powerful force, a force not of obsession, but of ambition: “...a powerful force must have held sway over him, something more profound than the miseries of drink or the harsh imaginings of his abandoned wife” (67). The mother fails to protect all she has left as the daughter decides to practice gypsy necessity. The daughter is lost, as she desires to