Mother 2

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who symbolize her own father, is presented as an unaffectionate father and husband who saw her wife "as immovable to him as one of the rocks in his pasture-land, bound to the earth with generations of blackberry vines (244)." This quote reflects the idea that "father" saw mother as simply an object, like a horse, plow, or grain of wheat; in general, to him, she was as much a part of the farm as any of these objects. She was not his dear wife whom he adored and loved. "Mother" was the person who fed him and kept the house tidy. In the opening of the story, "Father" refuses to tell mother what he is building. He tells her to "tend to her own affairs" (244), so right at the beginning we see that this woman is not allowed to have an opinion about economic affairs. As the story progresses we find out that Mother's son has been teach to perform in the same way as her husband. "Mother" has to ask him more than once about the barn. The son knew for three months that his father was ...

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