week2 character description-Cloyd

Cloyd is Sonny’s new stepdad and also kind of his boss in a way. He makes Sonny do a lot of stuff around the apartment, even though Sonny says it keeps him busy, there are things that he doesn’t like to do, like cutting the weeds. What bothered Sonny was when he found out that Cloyd had said that Sonny was unable to finish cutting the weeds and Sonny got mad because he just didn’t want to finish. Cloyd wants to be a dominant person by having Sonny do what he says and also by having Sonny’s mom always stay home and make the food and clean the house, even though she never cooks. Cloyd is also a jerk because he is racist. For example, “The truth is, I don’t want their problems...It’s not that I don’t work with black people who aint like that too sometimes”. (53) Also, when he saw that Pinkston was selling a car to a black man, he got really mad. All of this racism shows that he is a jerk and he doesn’t respect people. Sonny kind of describes Cloyd as someone who is conceded. For example, “Cloyd was already red-eyed, and he was wearing that hick smile I hated the most and swirling that ice cube. He had on his gray work uniform ,still starched from a laundry, like he hadn’t sweated in it today. His bottle of whiskey was on his office desk like it was the latest trophy, shiny below all of those dead deer with blank marble eyeballs.” (88) Cloyd is really into his trophies and like to brag about them to Sonny. He was an attitude of someone who only cares about himself. I don’t think he really like Sonny, I think he just likes his mom and is just having Sonny do all that stuff around the complex to get in some free labor and also to get Sonny out of the house. Also, I think Sonny’s mom is starting to have second thoughts about her marriage with Cloyd because of the stuff he has been saying. For example, Sonny and his mom always laugh about how Cloyd says that they too much toilet paper. Also, it seems like she is tired of being in the house all day because she has started to go out with her friends. Sonny has also said a lot about his mom and Cloyd arguing. He says he can hear some of the arguments because they’re loud, but some aren’t so he can’t. He usually doesn’t know what they argue about either, he just knows that they do. Also, you can tell that Sonny doesn’t like to be home even when he doesn’t have anymore work to do because he usually goes out to eat. He doesn’t usually eat at home, instead goes to the bowling alley to eat a burger. This could be because of Cloyd being at home, maybe Sonny just doesn’t want to confront him and instead avoids going home all together.