Anse

I don’t get Anse. I just don’t. He’s either a complete idiot or a willful one about his wife, demands to be self sustaining even though he has nothing, and when he tries to be self sustaining, he takes from his own family because he literally is to stupid and poor to barter with his own tools and possessions. He takes pride in the fact that he got his own mules, yet technically they were never his to own since the reason he got them was Jewel’s horse. I also understand that this may be a gap in the time period and thinking, but what is his problem with Dewey Dell and the money? All that she has tried to do is help and actually be self sustaining (unlike Anse’s false sense of his own self-sustainability) and he takes the money from her, saying it’s on a loan (and I will bet, from his personality and economic situation and personal experience that he will not pay her back). Ten dollars is quite a bit of money in that time! Anse ‘s tools were not worthy forty dollars to probably buy three or four mules. He- a ‘self-sustaining man’ would not sell his tools to pay back his daughter. I don’t get why he acts as though they should be grateful! He literally thought it’d be a good idea to fix Cash’s leg with cement. He has no teeth, a hump, and his wife cheated on him. He should consider himself lucky his children (and Jewel) don’t leave him for dead if not kill him themselves.