My Name Was Salmon Like The Fish Analysis

Abigail takes being a mother to a whole new level after her daughter is lost, and this is defended by the Critical Essay 'My Name Was Salmon, Like the Fish ': Understanding Death, Grief, and Redemption in Alice Sebold 's The Lovely Bones written by Kenneth Womack. He states, “Abigail isolates herself by delving into the workaday world of the suburban housewife. Her obsession with the preparation of the family 's meals and her daily chores allows the time to pass more quickly, thus limiting her ability to reflect upon her daughter 's ordeal” (Womack 5). Abigail has to still be this perfect mother to hide behind who she really is becoming, and this only stays true for so long. By working so hard in all she does at home, she has no time to reflect on her daughter’s death or do anything about it. She is not …show more content…
It is typically thought to be that they are going through things out of their control, or they’re just complacent with life. Waxman believes this is quite the opposite. “middle age for women actually is often synonymous not with complacency and boredom, but with upheaval in longstanding relationships and with the brave formation of new relationships” (Waxman 1). After Sarah is challenged by all that is going on in her crazy life, she becomes tired of sporting around the same old lies and hardships. Though Sarah does not develop a new relationship with another person per say, she upheaves the idea in her husband’s mind that she is not a real human with feelings, and then forms a new relationship with him as a person. After he understands that she can be lost just as easily as he can, they can build a new relationship off of this new idea that he now understands. She first had to break out of that relationship to prove that she is not just what people think about her, but instead she is a legitimate person with