She calls him "old libertine/old liar", which means that when he was alive the father often made empty promises of false hopes of fixing everything, but the family couldn't wait any longer him (Clifton 9, 10). He wishes his father were rich, so he would have money to pay his mother when she asks him for his salary on Friday; she could repay her mother everything she deserved by being his wife. The impatient tone is still there, but it's more subdued. Instead of expecting his father to shell out the money like before, he now wants him to have the money. This is the turning point. Furthermore, the daughter explains how her father grew up in the same circumstances, "son of a needy father,/father of a needy son" (Clifton 12.13). He admits that his father "gave... everything he had" even though it wasn't much (Clifton