His father because of the horrible marriage that he swears he was bewitched into, spends all the money that he is given on booze and out of the house, becoming more of a disgrace according to his Grandmother. She is convinced that he is out there slumming it up with other whores and one of these days he will knock one up just like Tom’s mother and then she’ll have two children to deal with. Tom almost wished that he would, because at least then he would have someone else to share his misery with.