People say when you marry someone you don't just marry that one person, but you marry that person's whole family. Every family has its dysfunction's. Every family has members that are often times difficult to deal with, but that's what family is all about; sticking together and loving one another, despite what differences or opposing forces may exist. In Liar's Club, Mary Carr's Grandma didn't share this point of view when it came to Pete, Mary's father. In fact, she wanted Mary's mother, Charlie, to divorce Pete before they were even married. "Grandma subsequently viewed my father as some slick-talking hick who had baffled her only child into settling for a two-bedroom tract house when she deserved a big ranch"(Carr, 13). Grandma's presence and death were only fuel to the wildfire that scorched the Carr's family relationship, leading to disaster and divorce.
             The first time Charlie threatened to divorce Pete, she pile Mary and Lecia into the car and tore off to Grandma's house in Lubbock. Upon arriving, no words of comfort or encouragement for the mending of Charlie's marriage escaped Grandma's mouth. "Grandma never did sugar coat her opinion of Daddy. She said something about Mother coming to her senses"(27). Since Grandma wasn't happy with Charlie's decision to marry Pete, she felt it was her duty to show Charlie the wrong doings of her actions. It was almost as if Grandma didn't care whether or not Charlie loved Pete. Not only did Grandma voice her extreme disapproval of Pete, but she proceeded to place Charlie in the spotlight by comparing her to those marriages of which she approved. "At some point, Grandma announced that Dotty had sure made a good marriage, which judgment wasn't lost on Mother..."(31).
             It seemed Grandma wasn't just on Charlie's back about her marriage to Pete, but jumpe...