What Does Danticat Think About The Mother-Daughter Relationship?

In day woman, the mother is protective of her daughter, and she doesn’t trust what her daughter says and does. Her mother goes overboard and asks what her daughter would do in some random situations (which I thought was unusual), and every answer the girl gives, the mother doesn’t believe it. She also accuses her of things she may have not done, so her daughter has resentment about it, and in turn, her daughter handles her resentment by running out the door of their home as soon as possible before her mother can criticize her anymore. The daughter asks her mother about her life with her father, and her mother reveals that she no-longer has a romantic relationship with him. The mother is willing to be open up with her daughter about personal things, but the daughter can’t open up about her peronal life with her mother, because she feels her mother would just start an argument with her. The mother does have a sense of humor, but only in a sarcastic way. She laughs at her own jokes, but her daughter does not share in her kind of humor. …show more content…
The daughter knows more about the mother than the mother knows about the daughter. The daughter is also more interested in what the mother is doing, but the mothers main interest in her daughter is just to tell her what she is doing wrong.The daughter gets accused of random things because the mother doesn’t know what kind of person her daughter is. The reason the mother doesn’t know this, is because she doesn’t take the time to get to know her daughter. In turn, the mother doesn’t trust the