About the main Characters in Another Chance

The main characters in my novel  Another Chance is Jay, the single mother, Julian, the freshman in college and the apple of his mother's eye and Keith, the mostly absent, but well-meaning father.
   Jay is a dreamer and a little naive about some points in life. She is a hard worker and very astute when it comes to her business. Jay gives a lot of herself to people, especially her family. She is a very loving mother and would do anything for her son. The awards and many accolades she has receive all pale in comparison to the great job she has done as Julian's mother.
   Julian is a very good-natured young man and is very committed to his education and becoming a child psychologist. Julian feels that he would have more to offer a child as he has personal knowledge of the pain. He is very close to his mother and comes to her for advice on the opposite sex.
   Keith is kind-hearted to people, however is oblivious to the needs of his little family. I say that his oblivious, but Keith really does not know how to give Jay and Julian his true self. He feels that he is the head of the family, but in reality Jay is the one who has kept everything together all these years.
Keith loves for others to perceive him as this great man. This is a facade to his inability to cope with the things that has happened in his life. 
   Jay and Keith met as young teenagers and Jay thought the world of Keith. He felt the same way about her, however he was very immature. This wasn't a problem for Jay, as all she could see was a future with this young man. They got along fine for many years.When Julian came along, Jay felt that he was the beginning of their lives and the start of a larger family. They were a lovely family until Keith decided that he couldn't handle being "husband" and father anymore and wanted to see if the grass was greener on the other side. 
   As you find out in the story that what you think is a great thing to do, you begin to realize that what you had was the best thing you had all along. Just like with Dorothy, she found out the hard way that there is no place like home.