Hindustan Times
Unforgettable fictional mother
Mother’s Day is celebrated on different dates in different countries. In the UK, April 3 is Mother’s Day. To mark the occasion, The Observer (The Guardian’s Sunday newspaper) put out a list of what it called ‘The 10 best fictional mothers’. The characters are culled from novels, plays, soaps and films.
From Mrs Bennet in Pride and Prejudice to Norma Bates in Psycho, it is an interesting and idiosyncratic list. I’d certainly put in Eva Khatchadourian from Lionel Shriver’s haunting novel, We Need to Talk about Kevin.
Who would figure on your list?
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I luv my MOTHER so much bcause she is my world.
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Who can forget the opening few pages of Roth’s “Portnoy’s Complaint” where Portnoy talks about his mother being “omnipresent”… also, in recent times, John Updike’s “Terrorist” had Teresa Mulloy, mother of a stormy, intense Muslim youth who has a bomb on his minds.
But surely, some of the most memorable mothers in literature, of late, have come from a certain David Foster Wallace, whether it was Avril Incandenza in “Infinite Jest” or the malevolent, savant-like Lenore Beadsman (ok, this was a granny character… but in the absence of the central character’s mother, it was mother by proxy, so to speak) in his debut work “Broom Of The System” . Wallace had a few peculiar maternal experiences of his own.. whether it was his mom “pretending to choke on her food” if her son made a grammatical mistake at the dinner table, or his parents speaking in passages from “Ulysses” ..
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Lovely to hear that.
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Also Franzen…
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