Vida Winter's 'All Children Mythologize Their Father'

As Vida Winter says in the beginning of the story "all children mythologize their birth". But for Aurelius that was not the case, he had nothing but to construct a mythology of his birth since Mrs. Love found him on the porch as a infant. There is no one in the book who can connect and relate with him to the reality of his history. Mrs. Love telling her story proves the central mystery of Aurelius's background. “Because if Mrs. Love found me, it can only mean that before that happened, someone else, some other person, some mother must have—”. With the help of Mrs. Love Aurelius was able to have his own story. Mrs. Love is always known for her knitting socks, foundling Aurelius, and her recipe book. Mrs. Love was not really happy and was not a content person. "Because I wasn’t happy. I’d fallen into remembering, and that’s a bad habit for a woman of fifty.” “But was I content? Not I.” Mrs. Love would always stress out when she would turn the heel of a sock twice. “My heart quite turned over. Do you know why? I’d turned the heel of that sock twice!” Mrs. Love was shocked when she turned the heel of the sock twice. “All of a sudden I looked down and saw that I’d turned the heel twice. There it was, plain …show more content…
Love starts reminiscing the times she turned the socks of the heel twice. “To find that I’d knitted a second heel. Once I’d done it and lost my young man. Twice and I’d lost my sister. Now a third time. I had no one left to lose.” Mrs. Love felt like life was it for her when lost her young man and sister. Just when she prepares to meet her maker, she starts to think about a picture. “The image of this little cat, with its wet fur, kept distracting me.” Even though she was old and depressed she still was willing not to deny one of God's creatures a bit of affection and something to eat. “I didn’t mind the thought of having some living creature by me right at that moment. So I went to the door.” Of course that was when she thought it was