"Have you ever seen a lame animal, perhaps a dog run over by some careless person rich enough to own a car, sidle up to someone who is ignorant enough to be kind to him? That is the way my Maggie walks. She has been like this, chin on
chest, eyes on ground, feet in shuffle, ever since the fire that burned the other house to the ground.”

The mother makes a “clarifying comparison” between Maggie and a type of dog in the passage above. How does her making a statement like this affect your opinion of her?