Are you referring to this question?
"It's not for me," my mother was saying. "It's for your children that I'm asking you for money."
"I ain't got nothing," my father said, laughing.
"Come here, boy," the strange woman called to me.
I looked at her and did not move.
"Give him a nickel," the woman said. "He's cute."
If so, then Wright most likely included this anecdote in order to demonstrate his father's dismissive treatment.