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Cody later becomes a wealthy businessman. The main cook of the restaurant becomes engaged and later marries Ezra. Later still, Ezra inherits the restaurant. Ezra is employed at a restaurant and later is promoted to manager. Ezra is known as the mild-mannered and passive brother, who never seeks revenge for the actions against him. Cody is jealous of the supposed favorite sibling in the eyes of their mother, Ezra. The children usually do not act with good behavior.Ĭody is the oldest sibling and is also considered to be the wildest. The character Pearl is considered a perfectionist, and when the father deserts the family, she is challenged in her attempt to hold the family together as strongly as it used to be. The father, Beck, was a salesman often away for business while the three children were raised by the mother, Pearl. Throughout the story, the reader can see how the different siblings experience the same things in their way. After a long day, Pearl collapses, and the drunken fans around them gather to help.The characters Cody, Ezra, and Jenny share memories and life experiences being raised by their mother following their father leaving the family. The life described in the diaries is plotless and mundane. At home, Ezra reads to Pearl from her diaries he finds certain sentences crossed out with the words “apple apple” scribbled over the top.

Occasionally, Josiah receives camping equipment and mysterious gifts from an unnamed donor. Josiah has already opened for the day and is being pestered by a soy sauce salesman. Ezra is bemused by his mother’s teenage diaries, though Pearl is uninterested. He describes the pictures to Pearl, who seems only to be interested in those in which she is featured. As every day, Ezra spends the morning with his mother they sort through a drawer of old photographs.

Pearl is now blind but refuses to admit it his siblings are away and the restaurant is “floundering” (220). Aged 46, Ezra discovers “a lump in the bend of his right thigh” (220) and is surprised by his lack of concern regarding death.