Mother is Unlikeable
I am not sure if this is a Skylar from Breaking Bad moment but Mother gives me bad vibes and I feel bad for Father in some respects. I know in class we have been painting Mother as the good guy and Father the bad guy in a lot of the domestic issues. I know why we have been painting Father out to be bad obviously but Mother is very judgmental and guilty of some of the same things that Father is. It rubs me the wrong way and I have grown to dislike her. I think this is the passage that made me dislike Mother: “He came in staggering through the waves, laughing, his hair flattened on his head, his beard dripping and his costume clinging to him immodestly; and she felt momentary twinges of dislike, so fleeting she didn’t even recognize what they were.” After Father comes home from an expedition for years and goes along with everything she throws at him, Mother has beef with him for living his best life? I just don’t get it. Father is trying his best. He may be resistant to new ideas a...