Pete, a hard working yet fearful man, feels his pressures to the point that he would never do anything out of the norm of his family and social life because he feels the need to be perfect. For example, Pete did not want to believe in a church like his brother did because it would have made him different than his parents and the way he was raised. Pete believed his parents “managed to be decent people without making fools of themselves.” In this quote, Pete was referring to believing in religion as making a fool of oneself. This is one example of how Pete would not stray from what he knows because he did not want to look like a fool to the people around him like his brother did. This example shows how Pete was in some ways hindered by needing