Unsuitable as possible ?!

English- Homework

Task: Say what Manny’s decision/ strategy on page 37 (line10-12) (part1) implies for his (future) activities/ behaviour (in part2)! What choice does he deliberately make? And for which purpose?
“There was only one thing for it. I’d have to make myself as unsuitable as possible. What father in-i-law in his right mind would want a thief and smoker for a son-in-law?”

Manny makes the choice to be impolite and a rebel. In all what he is doing. In school he is going to be bad. Write bad grades and skiving as much as he can. He is going out with Lisa and lies to his parents. He smokes a lot, takes drugs and drinks alcohol. All against the Punjabi traditions. Also against his parents.

He does that because he thinks that no father-in- laws would let marry his daughter with a “looser”. A rebel. Someone who never had aims someone who never is good in something. He will be a bad Punjabi.
I think that Manny really shows that he is against the “traditions stuff” of his father. With his rebel behaviour he wants to show that he will not let the pressure comes over him.