... once being an alcoholic and the reality he now lives due to being sober. Charlie is now sincerely trying to re-invent himself and wants a chance at caring for his daughter. Nonetheless, this is a world his sister-in-law, Marion, would never be able to understand. Marion definitely has no time for Charlie, and one can see that her animosity stems from the time when he and her sister Helen were having marital problems. She refers to an incident when Charlie locked Helen out of the house in the snow, apparently a relatively short time before Helen's death. "When she was dying she asked me to look out for Honoria. If you hadn't been in a sanitarium then, it might have helped matters," Marion stated (page 386). Although there is no real medical connection between the snow incident and Helen's heart attack, Marion still connects the two events in her mind ...

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