some benefits that naturally go along with being the younger sibling. This does not mean that Sister has to behave the way she does. True, she never references Papa Daddy buying her anything or giving her “everything” she wanted, but she has to take into account what he has done for her. Papa Daddy got her the Post Office job “through [his] influence with the government”, (109) which Sister thinks is the “next smallest P.O. in the entire state of Mississippi”. (109) This shows that Sister is ungrateful, and she is so set on thinking about things that she does not have, that she cannot appreciate the things she does have. She feels like she deserves more than just a “Bird’s Nest” (109), referring to the P.O. job.Sister not only feels that her family mistreats her, she feels intimidated by Stella-Rondo. This intimidation is actually jealousy in Sister’s case. She seems to think “Stella-Rondo tried to turn Papa-Daddy against [her]” (109) and in turn, “Papa-Daddy tried to turn Uncle Rondo against [her].” (110) Furthermore Sister even goes so far as to say “Mama, Papa-Daddy, and the baby all on Stella-Rondo’s side”. (113) By Sister thinking like this, it shows that everything is about her. Sister is so wrapped up in herself that she cannot see the problems of others in her family. She doesn’t seem to realize that Stella-Rondo has problems of her own. She “just separated from her husband and came back home again”. (108) With her she brought a child that “she never so much as wrote [her] mother about.” (108) That in itself has to be embarrassing and traumatic for Stella-Rondo. Sister is unable to see this fact, she is unable to step outside of her own realm and realize that life is not all about her, that others in her family have issues of their own. In Sister’s mind Stella-Rondo came home ...
