Mr shiftless is worse than the mother but the mother is a very bad lady and very dumb for trusting a man she barely knew with her one and only daughter. the mother is bad for telling mr shiftless that she know he will do right that she would never give her daughter to just anyone yet she gives her to mr shiftless in less than a week the whole time throughout the reading the mother was trying to get a man to work around the house and the care of her daughter what she didn’t realize though is that mr. shiftless was a terrible man for marrying the girl and leaving her at a diner just because he felt bad and started to feel guilty mr shiftless wanted one thing and one thing only the car and he did whatever he had to do to get the car. the mother should have known better than to let them leave because she will never see her daughter again.