Our Nig

I truly didn't care for any of the mothers in this text. I felt that poor Mag should have tried to do more for her daughter. I also feel that though she thought that she may have been doing a good deed, she should have known the torments Frado would feel at the hands of Mrs. Bellmont. I just can't believe that Mag deserted her daughter. I know Mag was suffering and couldn't do much but I feel she should have taken Frado with her or atleast sent letters. The author doesn't appear to think highly of mothers and feels abandoned as a child. The next mother of the story is Mrs. Bellmont. She is simply a horrible person and very cruel. It is horrendous how badly she treats Frado. Even with her own family she is looked down upon. Her children other than Mary feel sorry and stick up for Frado. Mrs. Bellmont scares her children and abusive, verbally and physically. From this motherly perspective the author is showing mothers as strict and rude. The author paints a picture of mothers as evil and deceitful people. Another mother portreyed in the novel is Frado when she is older. Frado suffers and is sickly for most of the time while she is married. Through all these mothers it seems that the author has a very negative image towards motherhood. The mothers in the story all suffer and are evil in different ways. Honestly just from the description of the mothers in the story and the way children were treated by these mothers, I almost had hoped that there hadn't been a mother figure in the story, like in the other stories we read. There was one mother that was a good mother in the story. Susan the wife of James was portrayed in a decent manner. However she was hardly described throughout the story. She may have been the one exception to the idea of motherhood being horrible.