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If the Creek Don't Rise


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How would Gladys justify her meanness and rudeness if someone was bold enough to ask her?

Created: 11/10/17

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CheriFaith

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How would Gladys justify her meanness and rudeness if someone was bold enough to ask her?

Personally, I don't think she ever would verbalize her answer to anyone but I am certain she knows why she is that way but doesn't have the wherewithal to extend empathy to those with whom she interacts.


Posted Nov. 11, 2017 Go to Top | Go to bottom | link | alert
dorothyh

Join Date: 01/23/15

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RE: How would Gladys justify her meanness and rudeness if someone was bold enough to ask her?

She would state she was robbed of her own life by caring for her brother.


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reene

Join Date: 02/18/15

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RE: How would Gladys justify her meanness and rudeness if someone was bold enough to ask her?

First let me say that I don't believe Gladys would ever respond to someone who asked her why she was so mean. She would probably throw them right out of the house. But if she did answer it would be something sarcastic like "This is the way God made me" or "If you had my life, you would be mean too".


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kathleenk

Join Date: 10/31/17

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RE: How would Gladys justify her meanness and rudeness if someone was bold enough to ask her?

I agree with the other posters that it probably wouldn't have been a complete or honest answer, but knowing the background of her prickly personality was interesting.


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taking.mytime

Join Date: 03/29/16

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RE: How would Gladys justify her meanness and rudeness if someone was bold enough to ask her?

I am not sure that Gladys saw herself as mean or rude. She was unhappy and could not contain that. I think she just wanted to be left alone. She could not foresee happiness in her life and reacted to her hopeless feelings.


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