Here, he rails against his father, reveals his mother's continuing mental illness, resents having to be the parent of his siblings, and laments being less than he should have been as a fat kid.

Perhaps this background explains why in his male adulthood he appears to hate men, to revile mothers (particularly single-mother households), and to have no remorse in separating innocent children from their innocent parents.

With no loyalty, he seems to have no boundaries: he tells of his cousin's acts of vandalism and with tongue in cheek, excuses them as acts of righteous civil disobedience; he loiters on the Internet, and with self-piety, plays off the Internet chatroom messages of mothers bespeaking of their children's sins and sanctimony.