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Gabe is Percy's stepdad, and, as his last name indicates, he is ugly in body, mind, and soul. Gabe hates Percy's guts. All he likes to do is sit on his booty all day, eating chips and dip, and playing poker with his buddies. He takes money from Percy and from Percy's mom, Sally.
Gabe is Mom ’s husband and Percy ’s stepfather. Percy calls him Smelly Gabe because he reeks, in addition to being crass, cruel, and ugly. Though Gabe works as a manager for an appliance shop, he never goes to work and instead stays home and plays poker all day.
Percy’s animosity toward his abusive stepfather, Gabe, shows that Percy does not consider him family, and while Percy has vaguely warm memories of his real father, he is angry that such a supposedly great man left his mother.
Gabe and makes Mom’s life hell—Percy calls him “Smelly Gabe.” The fact that Mom was able to move past the neglect she experienced as a child and do better for Percy suggests that in some circumstances, it is possible to not perpetuate unhealthy family dynamics.
Gabe at first refuses to let them go, but eventually allows them to take his car as long as they do not let anything happen to it. They drive out to Montauk, and both Percy and his mother are extremely happy to be there—it was where his mother met his father. She tells Percy his father would be so proud of him, and they talk about him.
Freeing his mother from the gods and from Gabe parallels the way in which the mythological Perseus saves his mother, Danaë, from Polydectes with the head of Medusa. Again, it’s his empathy that makes the difference, imbuing his mother the courage to take control of her life just as Percy has.
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Percy is happy, thinking of his father being proud of him and his mother's chance at a new life, since it seems she decided to turn Gabe to stone after all and sell him as a prized stone sculpture. She put down a deposit at NYU and moved into a new apartment.
