Mr.hoodhood has been seen as a man of perfection and precision. “I walked back to the perfect house that afternoon.” “Suddenly, all the cement squares were perfectly white, and none of them had a single crack. Not one.”(5.1) Hollings house is a perfect, punctual, precise house that we can only assume is kept that way by Mr.hoodhood himself. “I guess things aren't so bad,” I said. “Keep them that way,” he said.”(8.1) This quote shows the lack of interest of his son opinion, and cares more about deals and business.
In the middle of the novel, Mr.hoodhood show that he truly doesn't care about very many world problems, to a certain extent, as an