What gifts did Rick give his mother after he became a successful journalist, and what gift did he want to give his mother? How did he feel about these gifts?

Rick bought his mother glasses. The doctor looked at him in scorn as his mother said that she had not had new glasses since 1963. She was nearly blind, and Rick did not know. He sent her to a dentist who pulled all of her teeth, which had never been treated. She had subsisted on mush for many years. Rick did not know. He wanted to buy her a house because she had never had one of her own, but he never asked her if this was what she wanted.