I had the distinct impression, while reading through the story, that the use of semi-colons and the lack of breakage in the paragraph was a direct reflection of the social classes of the two characters presented. It seemed as though the mother was preparing her daughter to live her life out exactly as she had, a continuation of class, if you will. Parallel to this same idea was the continuation of the sentence, largely unbroken, much like the class situation of the family.
As stated in the text example of the homeless man in the bus station, I have to agree that in this case, also, that there's an implied, capitalist-serving message of the lower class being nothing to "worry about; they're doing alright for themselves." Perhaps the statement is true, perhaps not; either way, both the story and it's characters play into this ideal.
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