I find it very intriguing that Watson constantly juxtaposes David's yearn for maturity with his lack of maturity throughout the novel. David constantly says he wants to know what is goign on when his parents are arguing in the kitchen over Uncle Frank. He knows he should be mature and stay upstairs but he instead goes downstairs. He doesn't go down to console his parents, nor to find out what is going on, but instead to get a piece of chocolate cake. Another instance of this is when after David finishes telling the reader how he hoped his dad would tell him what was going he gets in to bed and cries. One would find tears in a situation like this to be a usual reaction, but he was not crying for his uncle, the loss of his housekeeper, or the pain and stress his dad was enduring, but for the fact that now he would probably never get to see Nutty, the horse, ever again. 

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The fact that Wesley even accused his brother of rape and murder made me wonder what I would do in a similar situation. I don't think i could ever convict a family member no matter the circumstances. I wondered if their had been any instances of this in the past. I found that in 1908, in Brooklyn, a man arrests both his brothers for robbery.