45.) He was too serious for the Boatwrights; they didn't trust him.
Glen had nothing to hold onto, nothing to make him feel important, nothing but Anney. Glen needed Anney to legitimize him. Glen desired Anney desperately; "He loves her like a gambler loves a fast racehorse or a desperate man loves whiskey."(p.41.) She was the only thing that made him right, that made him happy. He grew up in a world where he was abused, degraded and had no control. He believed once he married Anney he would be a husband and a daddy from it he would gain a solid identity.
Anney too wanted nothing more than some authenticity. She grew up "trash" and hated it. "Mama hated being called trash, hated the memory of every day she"d ever spent bent over other people's peanuts and strawberry plants while they stood tall and looked at her like a rock on the ground."(pg?) Her father was never around, her mother poor. She grew up with nothing and wanted a different life for her children. She was used by one man and left pregnant, fell in love, got married and had a baby with one who died. She ended up alone with two mouths to feed. .
Anney had a real hard time accepting Bone's birth certificate. After Bone's premature birth Anney was unconscious for a few days, her family couldn't give the name of the father for the certificate so they stamped it as "illegitimate." " . And there I was-certified a bastard by the state of South Carolina."(p.3.) Anney hated the certificate and hated being called trash, "The stamp on that birth certificate burned her like the stamp she knew that they tried to put on her."(p.3.) She went back every year to try to get the certificate changed. She even tried to hire a lawyer but all that she ever received was condescending smiles and more copies of the same illegitimate birth certificate.
Anney wanted to find a daddy for her babies and a husband for herself, like she was looking to fill a void, as if being a Mrs.
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