In the car returning to the Casey residence.
Alice Casey said earnestly to Nora Casey, "Mom, aside from not showing such unquestioning obedience to Grandma, there's no need to endure every slight from Aunt Fiona and Uncle Walter's family."
Nora offered a helpless smile. "Your father just wants to avoid stirring up family conflict. Traditionally, the Casey inheritance should go to the eldest son, but Grandpa gave everything to your father. It's understandable that your uncle's family feels resentful."
"But resentment isn't an excuse for how they've mistreated us. Mom, we've always operated under a flawed assumption—that the family business *should* belong to the eldest son, and that your father, as the second son, somehow dishonored him by inheriting. But turn it around—why did the eldes
