Parental Influence of Jill McCorkle: How her parents shaped her writing.

Parents have more influence on their children than anything else they come across in the world. This is true even in "The Mullet Girls." Jill McCorkle describes many of her parents' traits and beliefs that lead to how she viewed the world. From the start you can tell that her mother has a very conservative opinion. Jill goes on to explain why they stay in the little town when they go on vacation. Instead of …

…write a story about it. When the "Mullet" girls showed up after dark offering a great deal more than fish, her father turned them down. When Johnny, "more or less said, Thank you very much but no thanks," Jill looked at her father differently from then on. She never forgot her father turned down temptation without a second thought, and that she now knew how much the life he had was really worth to him.