Theme Of That Only A Mother

In the short story of “That Only a Mother” by Judith Merril is set five years into the future in 1955, the setting was during a war were nuclear bombing was often occurring. The story started depicting Maggie with signs of pregnancy. Her significant other, Hank, is a specialized lieutenant in the force, who was sent in a task. Hank is a designer and doesn’t go around anything that is dangerous so when Maggie gets pregnant she doesn’t think anything of it, as Maggie stated “The radiologist said Hank’s job couldn’t have exposed him” (213).Maggie is an expeditor who works at a new government building because her old job got to strenuous. Maggie is in denial that her child will end up mutant because there’s no way that can happen especially since her husband doesn’t work anywhere near radioactivity. Having a child in that century was never something to be thankful for. The reason is a direct result of radioactivity. Nuclear …show more content…
Since she continued telling other individuals that Henrietta was steady and ordinary, in a way it turns into a fancy of influencing things to appear to be alright persuading herself that her Henrietta was in truth a typical baby, despite the fact that she truly isn't. At the end, Maggie stays in denial, that there’s nothing wrong with her baby Henrietta. Maggie believes that her baby is prodigy which she is but because of that she sees nothing wrong with her, so when her significant other, Hank sees that the baby has no arms or legs he will have to be the evil person and deliver a news to her that she been overlooking for months, a new that’s going to break her heart, a news take make her a stronger person or fall apart ,but not hanks because he just meant the baby so he doesn’t have the same connect with Henrietta that Maggie