er, which are dead. Emily Grierson lived in the footsteps of her dead father, because of how he treated her as a child. As Faulkner writes, “We remember all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that which had robbed her, as people will”(77), this is why Emily told the ladies that her father was not dead, and she keeps his dead body for three days after his death. She kills her husband from the result of her father driving the men away when she was young. In correlation, Mabel’s deceased father dominates her. Mabel wants to be like her father who became a reasonably large horse dealer. She knows that at one time “The stables had been full of horses, … then the kitchen was full of servants”(Lawrence 590), and now that he has passed away, and all of the servants and horses are no more. Mabel’s existence solely relies on her father, and is shown by Jenkins when he says, “As long as the father lived she had an identity – he provided money and she felt ‘established’”(211). Even though controlled by her father, Mabel feels overwhelmed by poverty and tries to take her own life.Neglecting a child is probably the most horrible thing a parent can do to their child. Neglect makes a person feel like they are worth nothing, and that their parents don’t care for them. A neglecting parent is shown in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”, and “Miles City, Montana”. The neglected child in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” is the Misfit. The Misfit murdered his own father out of cold blood. The Misfit mentions that Mosley 3his dad once said, “It’s some that can live their while life out without asking about it and it’s others has to know why it is, and this boy is one of the latters. He’s going to be into everything,”(O’Connor 392). Also,...
