Lucy: Mother-Daughter Relationship

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Angela H

 

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December 22, 2014

 

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Much like Annie John, Lucy has an ambivalent relationship with her mother; one that has moved from a very intimate and loving one to one full of deception and contempt as Lucy’s mother tries impose her way of life on her daughter, being “mystified as to how someone that came from inside her would want to be anyone different from her:” I had come to feel that my mother’s love for me was designed solely to make me into an echo of her; and I didn’t know why but I felt that I would rather be dead than become just an echo of someone (Page 36)...
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As a child, Lucy attended “Queen Victoria Girls’ School” (Page 18), a school with a British educational system where she is taught British history and also British literature. Lucy remembers as a student in this school, being forced to memorize British poems, in particular one about daffodils. She “had been made to memorize it, verse after verse, and then had recited the whole poem to an auditorium full of parents, teachers, and [her] fellow pupils” (Page 18), even though she would not see such a flower until becoming almost twenty years old...
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