overty-stricken than Ruth and her family. Daisy had a drinking problem that she couldnt seem to shake loose and she slept around frequently. At one point, she decided the best way to deal with her problems was to run away from them.Daisy was gone. They couldnt find her. It was four in the morning, Mrs. Foote was having a fit; the flab on her arms was quivering even when the rest of her was quiet. When we woke up at about ten the next morning, Daisy was in our kitchen eating cereal. Daisy wouldnt say much. She told Randall to lay off her. There was something about a trucker at the truck stop near the highway, and how she went clear to Kentucky with him.(p. 82-83)But running away from her problems didnt solve them, so she realized she would have to take a different approach. Instead of sitting around and crying about all the things going wrong in her life, she was determined to move away from them, to Hollywood or New York. She wanted to become a beautician and do makeup for the stars. Yet even her best friend, Ruth, failed to believe that she could actually be happy and successful one day.It wasnt nice to say of my best friend, but I knew Daisy was a cheap girl. There wasnt anyone who truly loved her. She didnt have strong attachments to her partners either. She used her men for their money and their certain body parts, and if she was lucky, she was finished with them before they got tired of her.(p. 199)It came as a surprise to everyone that knew her when Daisy got married. She found a nice man who loved her and whom she loved back. This was exactly what everyone thought she would never be able to do. But at one point in her life, Daisy decided that she wasnt happy with the way she was, so she changed it.The real news from Honey Creek that summer was Daisys marriage. It knocked us all off our stumps. One minute shes on the loose, the next shes promising forever as if she truly understood the meaning of the words. I g...
