Millions

      I'm still reading millions, and for this post I want to focus more on Anthony and Damian's dad. Their dad is also kind of weird, like the whole story itself. I find it weird how long it took him to notice the huge heavy duffer bags they sometimes carry around, and all the new toys in their room (although they're hidden). He found out near the end of the book, so about a month or two in real life.
      I think maybe it's because of the death of his wife/Anthony and Damian's kids, and that he's still not over it or something, because the book never stated how or when she died. The kids are still pretty well behaved besides the lying about the money, and he just encourages them by constantly telling them to be "excellent". But he doesn't really enforce it. It's like the Jaywalking law. Damian does try to do what his dad says as much as he can, but Anthony is more of a slacker kind of kid. He technically lies the most throughout the whole book and stuff, while Damian just keeps his mouth shut, but that's also bad, too.
      But I also kind of feel bad for the dad, too. In the book, he meets this woman who works in an organization that collects donations for the poor, and they kind of start to get close. But later he realizes she really didn't work for that organization, that she just used him to get the money Damian and Anthony found to keep it to herself, which she manages to steal a little before Christmas. After he found out about the money, he let Dorothy count it with him, since he thought they were good friends now (or soon to be more than that).      After that, he didn't seem as heartbroken as I expected. For now he's just focusing on getting his money back.