- Joined
- May 12, 2017
I never got why you guys refer to Bob as a white trash redneck. Part of what made him so interesting was his contrast to Chris- Bob was an Auburn educated engineer with a vested interest in other cultures.
It's not that Bob himself was always white trash. It's that toward the end of his life, he really dropped the ball. Prior to marrying Barb, Bob had three children who actually all grew up to have successful careers. Once he married Barb, all the class he had from his past just went down the shitter. Chris's birth ultimately sealed his fate of filial alienation.
He obviously would have been a good parent to anyone BUT Chris, and its clear his greatest failure was not grasping his autism fully.
I'm not 100% sure about that. Bob's daughter from a previous marriage did not attend his funeral. Also, Bob himself was a paranoid old coot who kept theorycrafting in his old age.