It makes no sense. Looking at the rest of the house, it was roomy. When you first enter the house through the front door, there was a large rectangular room (a foyer?) with almost nothing in it. If they were that squeezed for space and the house was not big enough for them, then all the space throughout the house would be filled with stuff. At the end they have a lot of people over for the homecoming party and there's room for everyone.
At least two if not all three of the kids were sharing an upstairs bedroom, so there was no reason for the parents to be sleeping in the dining room. Plus there's a bathroom right off the dining room, with a shower? Inexplicable. Maybe it was just another manifestation of their mental illness.
I also noticed in the kitchen there was hardly any "stuff" (non-perishable food in cans and boxes, dishes left out, appliances... the shelves were half empty and the counters seemed completely empty as far as I could see. A household as chaotic as this one would be a mess and with five people living there and constant guests, sometimes a houseful of them, multiple kids belonging to the family and from elsewhere, you'd have food and dishes and pots and pans and potholders and other stuff everywhere, all the time.
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