e”But to have them think that… I didn’t even know she had a report card. She told me last fall that they had quit using them this year. Jason is mad that he has been decieved, he is the one who is used to doing the decieving and for someone else to do it, he is extra frustrated. And now for Professor Junkin to call me on the telephone and tell me if she’s absent one more time, she will have to leave school. Quentin didn’t really have much attention when she was growing up, so she goes out and skips school to leave with people who give her the attention she desires. She has been around someone who lied, and now she is doing it herself. Her mother was just as permiscuous as she is. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree! How does she do it? Where does she go? You’re down town all day; you ought to see her if she stays on the streets.”
In this passage, Jason is sort of ranting, letting off some steam about the promiscuity of Quentin. He has been lied to, and put under the impression that she was telling the truth, and now he knows he has been lied to. I think it’s ironic how he feels angry for being lied to about grades, when he has stolen hundreds of dollars from Quentin. I think that is more serious then a report card. I don’t think he is concerned I think he just wants to be the one in control.
Jason sort of seems embarassed that someone not in the family has found out about it before him, Professor Junkin was the one who called him. He knew about this, before Jason did which shows to other people that he has been decived.
I think that is Quentin was raised differently she would have behaved differently growing up. She never really had a mother figure, and the figure she did have behaved exactly like her. The saying “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree” shows it’s meaning between the relationships of Quentin and the people she grew up around, or was raised by.
