Analyzing Rosemary's Relationship With Her Mom

The last succession of frames in the chapter “The Ordinary Devoted Mother” contains a dizzying array of images, texts, and emotions. In previous frames the reader is able to easily flow through the novel reading left to right. However, these particular frames force the reader to read each frame several times in order to glean the full story.

Joann Murray’s essay on “Someone’s Mother,” describes a time when she was driving down the highway in Albany, coming from a dentist appointment when she spotted a hitchhiker. Now this is nothing unusual for hitchhikers to be on this highway but it was something about this one that captured Joan’s attention. She was half way down the road but her intuition made her make a U-turn and go back. Another reason she turned around is because the lady would not stop waving until she stopped. This hitchhiker was different from most hitchhikers, she had on a raincoat and a black hat and her hair was white. As Joan approached her, she could tell that she was an old lady. She was under the impression the old lady’s vehicle had broken down but there was no vehicle in sight. The lady informed Joan that she just needed a ride to “Nassau, which was three miles away. While riding down the road she found out the lady was ninety two years old and was apparently was “out for a walk.” The old lady begged Joan to drop her off at a drugstore in town instead of at her residence. This made Joan reminisce about the time when her ninety year old mother called her brother and said she did not remember how to get dressed anymore. Shortly after that, Joan had to put her mother in a nursing home. Joan began to realize the lady had been lost before, especially after seeing a white dove pinned to her collar. The older lady expressed dropping her off at

Secondly, self-sufficiency is illustrated through motivation. One afternoon when Jeannette was at home by herself child services came to talk to her about her living conditions and her parents. Jeannette told the man to come back when her parents were home. When Jeannette’s mom came home she told her what happened and that she needed to do something so child services wouldn't take them away, Jeannette’s mom then said, “Jeannette, you're so focused it's scary.”(195) Rosemary says when Jeannette is focused she can get intimidating. Jeannette is motivated by the need to protect her family, which shows her self sufficiency because it's up to her to keep the family together, because she knows her parents are unreliable. Additionally, Rosemary has been known to feel sorry for herself and expresses how she hates her life. When Jeannette sees her mom wallowing she stands there in disgust watching her mother give up on life when she

The way Bechdel decides to depict the characters through her art is a major factor in how the characters are developed, and can be a major factor in how the story is perceived. At a first glance, the depiction of Bechdel’s persona, Alison, in “Are You My Mother?” appears to have very masculine features. An uninformed reader may at first assume that the story is about a man. However, through the dialogue and narration it is quickly revealed that the drawings are depictive of a homosexual woman. Bechdel’s portrayal of herself in the graphics as having very masculine features says a lot about her self-perception. She creates her own persona, so the character seen in the cartoons is Bechdel in her own image and likeness. Clearly, Bechdel illustrated her comic so that the character bared a strong resemblance to her own self-image. Later on in the story, starting on page 83, Alison is depicted wearing glasses and she bears a much stronger resemblance to actual pictures of Bechdel. In several scenes throughout the story, including the opening scene, Bechdel has dreams of herself as a child. These scenes showed a young Alison, dressed in what would widely be considered boys clothing (Bechdel 73). The illustrations as a whole are very sexually ambiguous. This may be perceived as an allusion to Bechdel’s struggles with her own sexuality. However, the refrences to Bechdel’s struggles go beyond the art.

The most evident event in Jeanette’s childhood that proves Rosemary’s desire to satisfy her own needs before her children’s when the entire Walls family has little food, Jeannette sees that, “Lying on the mattress next to Mom was one of those huge family-sized Hershey Chocolate bars, the shiny silver wrapper pulled back and torn away” (Walls 174 In an interview with the New York Times magazine, Jeanette expresses her most current feelings towards her mother as she is asked “How could you forgive your mother for the way you were raised?” Jeanette responds “It’s really not forgiveness in my opinion. It’s acceptance. She’s never going to be the sort of mother who wants to take care of me.” Rosemary’s lack of care towards her children’s needs is evident throughout the memoir as she belittles the extremes her children face. After Jeannette’s Uncle Stanley touches her inappropriately, Rosemary tells Jeannette that, “sexual assault was a crime of perception” (Walls 184). Her disregard for a tragic event like this results in deep inner resentment towards her mother. Later in life these events encourage Jeanette to be anything but her mother. She learns to be a giving women who deeply values the needs of others. Her high standards to care for others is exemplified when she finds her mother digging through a dumpster and instantly offers to clean her up and provide her with food. Jeanette was able to put aside her feelings of resentment to care for the needs of her

Rosemary’s mother came into Rosemary’s room one morning to wake her for school. She probably knew by the look on her mother’s face that this morning would be one of those that fills her life with dread. As she gets dressed, she begins preparing herself for what she knows is probably coming next.

Even with his warm personality and charm, Speers is steadfast in her and Rosemary’s goals. Speers planned and successfully raised Rosemary to be superior to her female counterparts, and to be sharp-witted with the males she would interact with, both on a personal and professional level. Jonathan Schiff in Ashes to Ashes: Mourning and Social Differences in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Fiction said that Speer’s “callousness led to her daughter’s ability to survive hardships” (Schiff, 125). Speers nurtured and controlled Rosemary her whole life which led to Rosemary becoming successful in the movie industry; however, Rosemary became dependent on her. Speers wants Rosemary, her daughter, to become less dependent on her so she slowly but surely backs away from Rosemary, encouraging her to make her own choices. When she hears that her daughter is in love, which in reality is just an infatuation, with Dick she fully encourages Rosemary to experiment by saying “wound yourself or him, whatever happens it can’t spoil you, economically you’re a boy” (Fitzgerald, 40). Speers later reveals with no remorse or emotion, that she was leading Rosemary on a path that would lead to her emotionally controlling Dick. Regardless of his skills to infatuate others with himself, Speer’s careful planning and the way she controlled her daughter led Rosemary to move on past the ordeal. Rosemary was controlled by her mother her whole life which ended up having a positive

R/s about three weeks ago, Angie (Mariska’s mom) called and stated that Mariska is feeding Aiden (1) dog and cat food. R/s Angie reported that Mariska is not in her right mind and needs to be committed. R/s she keeps Aiden and when he goes home to Mariska and comes back to her home he is dirty. R/s Aiden is also terrified of water and getting in the bed when he comes back to her house. R/s Mariska is abusive to Jeffery and it has always been that.

Ms. Alicia continues to be agitated and in denial that her daughter is suicidal at this time. CPI reminded Ms. Alicia that school and this writer has been calling her repeatedly to start a therapy for Laela. Ms. Alicia stated that she has not received any phone call from school or any therapy. She also stated that she has a full time job that requires all her attention. She stated that she works in clinic as laboratory technician and she rarely answers phone calls when working. She also stated that she calls back only when she is off from

Sarah Davis is fourteen years old and she is in the 9th grade. She live with her mom Karen and two little sisters Alexis and Taylor in Montgomery, Alabama. Her father died when she was 8 years old so it was just her, her mom, and her sisters. One of her favorite thing to do with her family was bake. It was their family traditions to bake different sweets and watch movies on Friday nights. Sarah started to realize that her mother wasn’t around for their family tradition and she wanted to know what was going on.

The relation between a mother and a little girl can make a tremendous disunity in their relationship since they have diverse perspectives on life, and how they ought to deal with it. In the The Joy Luck Club a fiction novel written by Amy Tan, a story is described of An - Mei Hsu and her daughter Rose Hsu Jordan, who is going through a separation. An - Mei needs Rose to battle to save her marriage, understand the Chinese way, and keep her respect among her family. The relationship between An - Mei Hsu and Rose Hsu Jordan demonstrates that dialect is a block divider, since they don 't comprehend what they need.

“Involved in what, Mom? Mom, just tell me what all of this is about,” Feeling small again, Veronica wasn’t wired to regret things, to think of her decisions as mistakes, but looking at her mother.. At their situation, and reevaluating her expectations, felt

Often the most important trait a person can posses is to be aware of their surroundings. If someone is aware of their surroundings on a physical, mental and emotional level, they have the power to fully immerse themselves in their experience, without hesitation or limitation. In Saidiya Hartman’s memoir Lose Your Mother, the reader is presented with an orator who lacks complete awareness of their surroundings, which later translates to a lack of self-awareness, while in both Jamaica Kincaid’s and Caryl Phillips respective memoirs the reader is presented with authors who are fully aware of their surroundings and thus self aware as well.

Theresa held her mother and watched her die while they were waiting for the ambulance. Rosemary went to high school and worked a part-time job in order to provide for the family. She had to become an adult overnight. “Theresa was not sympathetic, and the teenage rivalry between them escalated. Her grief metamorphosed into depression and desperation while Rosemary was trying to keep the family together and carry on” (McDougal, 1995, p. 21).

The film All About My Mother is a drama which sees a mother, Manuela, on a search to find the father of her son. This journey comes after her son, who has always desired to meet his father, was tragically hit by a car and killed while chasing down actresses of the play A Streetcar Named Desire. This play, which Manuela was an actress in twenty years earlier, becomes small piece of her son she holds, since it was the last thing she did with him before he was killed. This desire she feels to be complete is a trait which recurs in a few other characters during the story. The characters that the desire to feel complete is most shown in is Manuela, Esteban (her son), and Huma.