The Painted Man Analysis

That idea of white trash is prevalent in the south, and it’s possible her family was the definition of it. Parents that married straight out of high school for the mother to escape an abusive family. A family with a father that openly cheated on their mother, and a mother who stayed at home, running a beauty shop from their basement, whose reactions to her husband's actions were the talk of the small Baptist church. Growing up on a street of only the Call and Baldwin family, she was surrounded by only relatives. Living in a one story ranch with a blue tin roof, and with the county famous “Paint Man” as a father. As well as with a dog named Freckles who was old, deaf and blind. The story of the “American Dream” was supposedly being lived on …show more content…
A genius with dreams too large for the small southern town she was born in. This girl grew up, living with her father and his many girlfriends after her brother moved out. Estranging herself from her mother who had began drinking to deal with the pain of her dissolved marriage. Smoking like the freight trains that ran through town, back and forth to the Holly Farm’s plant. This lack of a relationship with her mother stemmed not only from her mother's own actions, but from the actions of a long-time and live-in boyfriend, who mentally, physically and sexually abused the teenage girl when she lived with them in middle school. Her mother’s lack of compassion on the subject, as well as her refusal to leave the man who was supporting her, lead to the girl moving back in with her …show more content…
Ginger working at the Holly Farm’s hatchery and Jeff at the Philip Morris factory in Winston. They lived on a small acre of land given to them by Jeff’s father, and pulled their lives together. Five years later, they welcomed their first daughter in the middle of a blizzard in 1993, March fourteenth to be exact. They soon knew they wanted to expand their family, moving into a double-wide trailer that replaced their original. Two months earlier than expected in February of 1999, Jeff and Ginger welcomed their second daughter. Her hospital bills from being born so premature put strain on their financial situation. This was exasperated by the fact that Jeff had recently lost his job, and they relied heavily upon the generosity of their parents and their own frugality to keep afloat. Around the time that their second daughter’s first birthday was growing near, Ginger learned she was pregnant once more, a daughter that was completely by accident, having been on birth control since their second daughter was born. After falling into postpartum depression after the birth of this third and final daughter in November, Ginger was diagnosed with that, as well as bipolar disorder, causing discord in their marriage and her relationships with family and friends as well, who didn’t believe in mental illness and its