When beginning to read “Winter’s Bone” we initially receive an insight on Ree Dolly’s ordinary life. Ree Dolly is first introduced to the reader as a caretaker and motherly figure living in the Dolly Clan. She is described as a sixteen-year old brunette with green eyes and “a body made for loping after needs.” We learn that she takes care of two younger brothers, Harold and Sonny, and her mentally unstable mother. Her father, a crystal meth cook, is rarely around and is currently gone while he has a court date soon approaching. Without a real job, the family has no source of income and Ree takes many of the burdens that her father does not take up. Ree must scrounge for everything she gets as she has little to no money to buy food and living
