What setting increases Frances' desire to inflict self-harm in the novel, Conversations with Friends?

Frances' dad's house symbolizes how she was emotionally damaged by her unstable childhood. Her father's alcoholism has worsened over time. When she sees the unsanitary condition in which he lives, she feels responsible for improving it during her visit by cleaning up the trash and washing his pile of dirty dishes. She also resents him for continuing to live a dissolute life. She has her strongest impulse to practice self harm while she is in his house. She wishes to cut herself with a sharp knife while she is washing his dishes, and she purposely makes the dish water too hot and scalds her hands.