Joe adores his niece Kitty and you see quite a bit of her, including frequent calls to the Cullen cottage in the village to fix one thing or another, giving you revealing glimpses of Kitty's home life. She is the second oldest of six siblings. Her father, Joe's brother, has been gone a long time. Her mother, who Joe says was once a vibrant, funny, intelligent woman, now does little but sit in a corner, watching TV. Kitty bathes, dresses, and feeds her younger siblings, sends them off to school, and does her best to keep her mother together, all while working hard at school, helping out at the church, and volunteering in a bewildering range of charitable causes.
How do you treat Kitty on these visits?