...your own decisions when you depend on your parents for financial and moral support ?...) - dealing with deviency / differences (Ben could represent symbolically any person who is different, disabled, socially unfit and so he questions the way society [family ; doctors ; schools ; the police...]...

...builder.” “ His real father married one of his kind: she was a noisy, kind, competent woman, with the cynical good humour of the rich.” Molly Burke David to Molly : “You are not maternal.” “ Molly and Frederick were large and untidy, with a great deal of grey hair, wearing comfortable...