The reason for her keeping them so long was that they were not trash. Theywere good country people.
No matter what everyone will have a view on someone whether it is good or bad and it just depends on who you ask. So for Mrs. Hopewell It was the perfect person for them but if it was someone else it could rub them the wrong way and make them upset. To me a city person might not like "country people" just assuming from the reading.
Joy called them Glycerin and Caramel. Glynese, a redhead,was eighteen and had many admirers; Carramae, a blonde
I looked up what Glycerin was and it is a sugar alcohol which is also similar to caramel in the aspect of sugar. And to make an assumption i am also assuming that glycerin is the color red because one of the daughters is a red head and the other daughter has blonde hair to resemble Carmel.
letting her gaze range over the top kitchen shelfwhere there was an assortment of dusty bottles, she might remark, “I see you ain’t ate many ofthem figs you put up last summer.”
To me this immediately tells me that she has something to say about anything and everything because you should not be nosey to the point you are looking on top of a kitchen shelf. And she is probably not well liked by others in their community.
Joy would get up while her mother was eating andlumber into the bathroom and slam the door,
When I read this my first question was why did Joy "Slam the door" and my first instinct was that maybe she was does not like Mrs. Hopewell and she is trying to find a way to escape her.