Hello, Glen Waddell! I knew in chapter three that there was something wrong with you!
At first, the reader is torn between trusting Glen and not being able to peg that certain something that is off about him. Glen and Mama date for two years. He is hard working, or so it seems. On page 34 he is described while loading cases of cola into a truck. Perhaps my mind was in the gutter, but it was at this defining moment at which I decided he was going to be a sexual predator with the way Allison depicts his masculine hands, force, strain, narrow hips, and grunting.
"Glen Waddell turned Mama from a harried, worried mother into a giggling, hopeful girl." Great. We are doomed. Love, or at least imitations of it, is masked in laughter. Mama won't leave him.
Glen gets emotional and forceful when he asks Anney to marry him. She's unsure herself, but it seems like what is best because she thinks that Glen loves Bone and Reese, too. The family knows that something is wrong with him. Uncle Earle isn't very fond of the fact that Glen doesn't defend his own family when Earle gets to joking. The chapter ends with a family photo which I suspect will turn up later in the book. What's more is that we see the contrast between healthy, real love showered on the girls by their Uncle Earle and the coldness of Daddy Glen.
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