Mr. Shiftlet In The Life You Save May Be Your Own

I think that Mr. Shiftlet is a huge hypocrite. In The Life You Save May Be Your Own, he told Mrs. Crater, "never let anyone take your daughter away" and then he takes her away but also dumps her at a roadside diner, named The Hot Spot. I would expect this to be a not so good place, but it turns out to be a diner. This goes back to Mrs. Crater telling Mr. Shiftlet, "you want you an innocent woman, don't you?" It shows a mix between idea’s with Lucynell being the innocent and not a woman, but a girl being sixteen, and dropping her off at a terribly named diner.

Then he picks up a boy and tells him, "Son, I got the best, old mother in the world so I reckon you only got the second best." he goes on to say "My mother was an Angel of God."