Blog#2:Quarter 4: Tender Bar

Meohringer's memoir tells us of his everyday family life. We learn that he lives in a big house with many family members. His household is known as the "Shit House" and it includes his mother and him, his grandpa and grandma, his mother's two grown siblings, Uncle Charlie and Aunt Ruth, and Aunt Ruth's five daughters and one son. We learn that he is not happy in living there because he is bothered by noise that is made constantly from all the arguing and disgruntles in his family. We learn that he doesn't like the noise, however the experience of living in such a house has taught him to enhance his selective listening skill. He states that this skill was helpful whenever he wants to listen to the thing he wants to while ignoring every else. The reason for it being a "Shit House" to him is because his grandpa not caring about the house and so doesn't want to repair it so it looks like crap to him. This all adds up to the fact that makes him try to stay from the house as much as possible. By doing this, we can foreshadow that he will start hanging around at the bar more because he loves the happiness that is brought upon in the bar.