Just curious: It seemed that Frank's mom worked part time in the dollar store.
Can you support a kid, pay for a house & bills on that salary??
I know its fiction, but still...?
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A single mother with a husband who killed himself is likely eligible for all kinds of welfare programs.
Given that she has a homosexual best friend and that she is poor welfare trash, she's almost certainly an Obama voter.
She may have been able to apply for SSI benefits for her son if the father had worked enough years before he died + all the other benefits a widowed mom might be eligible for (had this been a real family of course :-)
shareI just assumed she got some sort of state assistance as a single (widowed) mom.
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I don't think that she was a part time employee. In fact, she may have been working a lot of over time (time and a half). I do recall her saying the only whole day that she could spend with Frank was on Sundays because she worked every other day. Plus the manager was her best friend so her salary was probably more than her coworkers. As far as her bills, maybe the house was already paid for before the father's death and he left insurance money or something. I also think that Doyle was helping to support them too.
Seems like they live in a house they inherited from Frank's mother's parents or grandparents. Some of the furnishings were pretty old, and not just the furniture but little things like the flyswatter hanging off to the left in one of the kitchen scenes. It doesn't look like someone Frank's mother's age furnished it from scratch but as if they moved into it after someone died.
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What was the name of the Dollar Store she worked in-I forgot....
shareI think it was the "Hoochie Dollar Store"
For some reason, I thought that Linda was an assistant manager. It would mean more money. The cost of living is lower in Arkansas, and the house is probably paid for.
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For some reason, I thought that Linda was an assistant manager. It would mean more money. The cost of living is lower in Arkansas, and the house is probably paid for.
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In Arkansas 100 dollars gets you 114 bucks worth of goods and services while in California 100 dollars gets you 88 bucks worth of goods and services.