Macon Dead Junior needs to wake up

Macon Dead Jr. seems to be in serious trouble of demolishing all of his relationships. He is trying to badly to keep up this image he has attained but his family would just rather be comfortable with themselves then with the rest of the world. Money does not seem to matter as much to the rest of them as it does to MDJ. I don't necessarily think this whole money obsession is something he was born with though. It seems to be an effort in a strange way to emulate his fathers success within his community. But instead of reaching out and treating all people as equals and family he tries to keep himself at a different elevated level. And he is also pushing his family member to the absolute limit when it comes to what they will deal with. Corinthians may just get up and leave after what he has put her through in meddling with her life, and Lena just wants her other family members happy so she might do whatever it takes for them. Ruth is clearly unhappy and has been for years, and Milkman respects his father but wishes to be as different from him as possible. All this pushing might just break the family and MDJ's image that he has tried so hard to achieve. If he doesn't try and create some love and warmth for any member soon, that "perfection" he has strained for may just fall apart.