Joy had a growth mindset, after losing her children's father she moves to New York to give her children a better life, but what would also result in her son being exposed to the crime around him, she went so far as to send him to military school to keep him away from temptations, while Mary had a fixed mindset, she didn't want to believe that her son, the other Wes Moore, was following in the footsteps of her brother who got involved in gangs at a very young age. “She knew what her eldest son was doing, but she didn't think she could do anything for him now. She hoped Wes would be different” (Moore 71) Mary chose to ignore the fact that her son was following in his brother's footsteps. She refused to think that Wes would become like her brother Tony, after he started earning large sums of money. of drug trafficking, she could have acted immediately, instead of letting her denial take over.