Joy had a growth mindset, after losing the father of her children she moves to New York to give her children a better life, but this would also lead to the exposure of her son to the crime that surrounded him, she went so far as to send him to military school to keep him away from temptation, while Mary had a fixed mindset and did not want to believe that her son, the other Wes Moore, was following in the footsteps of his brother who was involved in gangs at such a young age “She knew what her older son was into, but she didn't think there was anything she could do for him now. She hoped Wes was different" (Moore 71) Mary chose to ignore the fact that her son was following in his brother's footsteps, she denied thinking that Wes would become just like his brother Tony, after he began earning large amounts of money from drug dealer could have acted immediately, instead of letting his denial come