The Aviator's Wife Character Analysis

Throughout a lifetime everyone will experience good and bad times. Some people will lose themselves along the way, while others will rise above. People who survive the hard times often become stronger characters. In the novel, The Aviator's Wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh narrates her devastating experiences that contribute to the theme; what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. The first event to completely challenge Anne's character was the death and kidnapping of her first child, Charlie. It was just another night in the Lindbergh's life until Charlie's nanny ran to Anne frantically asking "'Do you have the baby, Mrs. Lindbergh?'"(184), but Anne did not and suggested he might be with her husband. Anne began to puzzle over the thought "Why were we looking for little Charlie, at ten o'clock at night?" (184) Then it struck her, her baby must be missing. Running through the house she began to search for her son, until she saw a letter on the window sill of …show more content…
Later in their marriage, Charles was often away on political flights to Europe. He gone months at a time, but he always returned to his family. So when he was diagnosed with leukemia, he came home once more. Anne stayed with him at the hospital every day. A loyal wife, she would stay buy his side, even when a nurse handed her his letters. "They were letters of farewell, of finality, of shared remembrances and hopes, no longer to be fulfilled. They were not addressed to me" (384). Written in secret they had been to the many lovers Charles had over seas. Once Charles was almost gone, she questioned him about these women. "'Seven '"(385), He confessed. "' I fathered seven other children'" (385). Although Anne would never understand how he could betray his family this way, she forgave him. Believing " Maybe this was Charles's way of looking for Charlie, by trying to replace him, over and over and over"