Dwight quickly proves himself to be a cruel, controlling addict, a man who emotionally and physically abuses both Rosemary and Jack. When Jack’s mother, Rosemary, already in flight from an abusive relationship and hoping to make a new start, meets Dwight-a seemingly oafish, benign, and slightly odd man-Dwight offers to fold Rosemary and her son into his own family, giving them a home and a sense of stability. Though throughout his memoir, Tobias Wolff’s painful childhood memories are often recast in a darkly comical light or otherwise relayed in such a way that demonstrates his own worst instincts and impulses, This Boy’s Life is, at its heart, a story of the abuse Wolff and his mother suffered at the hands of his first stepfather.
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