Reading the first part of Carpenter's Gothic, it is very hard to understand who is talking at which scene, and what exactly the characters are discussing. When introduced to Booth, we see that shes having a discussion with a person over the phone, but there is no person to us being "shown", this to me is kind of weird as to why Gaddis would do this. When two characters are having a discussion like Booth and her brother Billy in the beginning, it was hard to figure out who was talking at first, you have to kind of read it more in order to understand that oh its Booth saying this or Billy saying this. And then when Paul, Booths husbands, is introduced, we see that he is a man that likes to view his wife as an object and not his wife. He like to drink a lot, my analysis was because he cant seem to get any job working for him. He tries to start something from home, and always "forces" Liz (Booths first name) to be the one who does the work. always asking if anyone called today or if the checks came, and yelling about the expenses. He just seems like an angry man who doesn't have anything going for him.

The one question i have is Who is Adolph?
The more i read the book i still couldnt figure out who this guy is, or his role in the book