Lives before the story

The mother, Dee, and Maggie all had apparently different lives before the story started. The mother, obviously was the working hand around the home and the one who made the family go 'round. She was the glue that kept them all together and tried to do the best she could giving the circumstances that she was solely responsible for the girls. Maggie was the young sister who just stays back and takes every detail of her surroundings in. Unlike Dee, she was content to just look around and watch other people's behaviors and then later analyze them. Lastly, Dee was the sister who was always high maintenance and anxious to get away from the family farm. She was eager to get out in the world and experience it on her own and not be tied to her background on the farm. She was the typical college girl who goes out in the world and finds herself.