She calls him "old lecher/old liar", which means that when he was alive, the father often made vain promises of false hopes to fix everything, but the family couldn't wait for him any longer (Clifton 9, 10). She wishes her father was rich, so that he would have money to pay her mother when she asked for her salary on Friday; he would be able to give back to the mother everything she deserved as his wife. The impatient tone is still there, but it is softer. Rather than expecting her father to cough up the money like before, she now wishes he had the money. This is the turning point. Additionally, the daughter explains how her father grew up in the same circumstances, “son of a needy father,/father of a needy son” (Clifton 12.13). She admits that her father “gave… everything he had,” even though it wasn’t much (Clifton