Vance throughout Hillbilly Elegy dealt with a multitude of familial conflicts and love that have sprouted from generations of poverty and Hillbillys. His main conflicts were with his mom. There was a cycle to J.D.’s mom Bev, referred to as Mom throughout, she would seem normal and then her behavior would grow increasingly erratic, then came the partying with drugs and alcohol, and then the apologies that were always empty ones because she would soon be back to her erratic ways (75). One time when J.D. was about twelve, he was in the car J.D. said something to his mother that pissed her off so much that she threatened to crash the car and kill them both, but ended up pulling the car over to “beat the shit” out of J.D. so he used that chance to escape. Thankfully the owner of a nearby house was willing to help him and called the cops and Mamaw (Vance,