Ashah Character Analysis

Ashleigh, a young girl crossed with a hard choice, with divorced parents, had to choose. Her father was in need of fast cash, her mom had some, but that would be stealing. Ashleigh was a smart young woman and knew that the right choice was to not take her mom’s money. Through the story Ashleigh progresses as a character. She goes from being a dreamer, like her father, to having to have a practical point of view, like her mom. This helped Ashleigh with the decision if she should help her dad and take her mom’s emergency money or if she should leave the money and help her dad come up with $200 differently. Ashleigh most likely didn’t take the money because she knew her mom would be disappointed in her, her dad can’t keep promises or forgets about

When Ashleigh is faced with her father wanting to make a deal with her, her father being remembered for not keeping his promises or forgetting about them, it was common sense that Ashleigh was not to accept the deal. In the story it says, “When I was little, Dad used to promise me the stars for a necklace, but like most of his promises, that one never quite happened.” (Pfeffer, 1) Since Ashleigh's dad was known for not following through with his promises then there was no reason to believe that he would’ve changed that moment. Therefore, Ashleigh had no reason to trust that her father would pay back her money. The story states, “A couple of days later, when Dad forgot to pick me up at school, or didn’t have the money for the class trip, or got all his favourite kinds of Chinese and none of mom’s and mine…” (Pfeffer, 2). The fact that in the past Ashleigh’s dad didn’t even have the money for Ashleigh’s class trip shows that her father wasn’t going to come up with $200 as fast as Ashleigh needed him to. Susan Pfeffer wrote, “‘He’s an irresponsible bum.’ was her nice way of wording it.”(Peffer, 1). Given the fact that Ashleigh’s mom, the realistic one in the family, knew that her ex husband wasn’t an intelligent adult. Ashleigh’s knew that her mom was right the majority of the time so, if Ashleigh’s dad was the “irresponsible bum” Ashleigh’s mom claims he was, then there was no reason to believe that Ashleigh’s father would’ve paid Ashleigh back as soon as he could’ve’. All the little things Ashleigh’s dad was remembered for, had added up. Ashleigh had already realized her dad wasn’t trusted to be held accountable for things, which gave Ashleigh a reason not to give her father the