Mother (Part TWO)
**This blog is a followup to my previous one, so if you are really interested, I would suggest reading it** When I left off with my previous blog, I concluded that Mother, even early in the book, went though an extensive transformation just from the appearance of this baby in her yard, while Father remains disapproving, displeased, and more or less unchanged. Mother was growing away from Father, and Father, seemingly stuck in the past with his “conservative” ideals, was either unaware, didn’t care enough, or didn’t know what to do. Now having finished reading the book, these trends have very obviously carried on to the end of the story. It’s actually a little surreal how different of characters they are, as if Doctorow said to himself “How can I make the most out of their differences and force them apart.” (Ok, maybe that is a bit of an exaggeration, but I don’t think it’s that crazy). Looking back at it, Mother and Father can be simplified down to dynamic vs static charact...