Reading the first four chapters of this book has really told me a lot about Lutie as a woman and a mother. She constantly and with no regret keeps her son in mind with every decison she made. Her entire world revolves around her son Bub. On page 19, when she was contemplating whether or not she was going to take the apartment, she says, "You can sit down and twiddle your thumbs while your kid gets a free education from your father's blowsy girl friend. Or you can take this apartment.". She has this entire mental conversation with herself, and even though she is really uncomfortable around Jones and even scared of him, she would rather put herself in harms way than to have her son raised by the likes of her father's innapropriate girl friend
