They argue all the way home, Matt complaining that barber supply sales have fallen off,
and that their savings are dwindling, Rose screeching back that making Charlie normal is more important than anything else.
Frightened by their quarreling, Charlie whimpers. The sound of anger in their voices is painful to him.
As soon as they enter the apartment, he pulls away and runs to the corner of the kitchen,
behind the door and stands with his forehead pressed against the tile wall, trembling and moaning.
They pay no attention to him. They have forgotten that he has to be cleaned and changed.
"I'm not hysterical. I'm just sick of you complaining every time I try to do something for your son. You don't care. You just don't care."
"That's not true! But I realize there's nothing we can do. When you've got a child like him it's a cross, and you bear it, and love it.
Well, I can bear him, but I can't stand your foolish ways.
You've spent almost all our savings on quacks and phonies—money I could have used to set me up in a nice business of my own.
Yes. Don't look at me that way. For all the money you've thrown down the sewer to do something that can't be done,
I could have had a barbershop of my own instead of eating my heart out selling for ten hours a day. My own place with people working for me!"
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