Thursday, May 5, 2011

Lilly & Deborah

The beginning of the story reflects back to the death of Deborah, Lily's mother.  We come to know later in the novel that Lily's mother was going to leave Lily's father and that is why Lily had the memory of arguments.  Lily is curious in her own nature.  She fantasizes of what it would've been like to grow up with her mother.  Deborah becomes this "larger than life" character in Lilly's life.  When Lily finds out the truth of how he mother wanted to leave her father, and ultimately her as well, Lilly is filled with anger.  Lily turned the anger into love by searching of ways her mom still cared about her.  Lily comes to terms with the real/complex person her mother was.  No longer was her mother this memory of loving definition of simplicity; she had faults.  Lily also comes to find out that her mother's death was an accident that she caused by holding a loaded gun and accidently firing it at her mom when she was only three years old.  Lily slowly works her way out of the trauma she has suffered in her life by looking at the woman around her and herself and how far she has come.

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