Who is Matt Gladney from The House Next Door and what is their importance? The_House_Next_Door English & Literature Matt Gladney | The House Next Door

Matt Gladney is Pie's father and Buddy's father-in-law. Gladney appears to have a very close, almost incestuous, relationship with his daughter. Gladney is deeply upset at the death of his unborn grandson. Gladney suggests to Colquitt that he would like to burn the house down because of what it did to his grandchild. Gladney appears to have a hot temper and seems to grow upset easily. He is angered the night of the Harralsons' party because Pie took none of his suggestions when building the house that he financed. Gladney has a stroke from which he dies when he walks in on his son-in-law and Lucas Abbott in a naked, seemingly homosexual embrace.