![]() ![]() So, he does what all good sons do – he pesters his father for money and threatens that he’ll become a criminal or kill himself if his father refuses to help. His son goes to college but he doesn’t work and he’s burdened with student loans. He feels sorry for her and decides to send her checks every month. Consequently, she asks her father for support. His daughter is married to a good-for-nothing lout and has to raise two young children. He lives alone and works very hard all day but doesn’t get to save any money for himself. He has to pay his ex-wife money as the court demands it, his daughter and his son need his help as well. The narrator is frustrated with this situation as he has a long list of people relying on him. ![]() However, his brother fails to give the money back and the narrator has to send his mother money every month by himself again. Feeling sorry for him, the narrator agrees and asks his brother to pay back by sending the money to their mother. His brother asks him for five hundred dollars stating how he is on the verge of being homeless. We learn that the narrator’s mother is financially dependent on him as well. Billy, the narrator’s brother, is suffering financially and keeps asking the narrator for money, assuring him that he’ll pay back on time but then he makes excuses each time and ends up not paying back. At the beginning of the story, the narrator admits that he regrets lending money to his brother. ![]()
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