William Faulkner's The Dollanganger Family

The Dollanganger family lives in Pennsylvania their father works for a business for the public relations firm and travels very often. When their father comes home, the children get many gifts. They are a very loving and affectionate. The family grows when the mother gives birth to twins, a boy and a girl, Cory and Carrie, each as perfect as the two older children, Cathy and Chris. However, everything changes when the father is killed in a car accident on the night of his thirty-sixth birthday. The mother Corrine a housewife later begins to struggle to pay the bills. The mother is uneducated and has no means by which to make money to care for her family or any desire to become educated for this purpose. Instead, the mother turns to the family she once shamed and ran away from. …show more content…
Corrine informs her children that in order to gain her trust back from her father (Malcom) that they have to remain a secret from their grandfather. When the children ask why she just replies by telling them that grandfather does not know about them and that her and her father do not get along very well. Corrine lets her children know that they have to stay in the attic away from everyone in hiding so Malcom does not find out, if he does then will not be able to receive anything or get help. They are told they just have to stay in the attic for a very short time. Informing them that Corrine’s father is sick and they are waiting until he