It is clear that if you look at the parts of this story
that mention the mother, what stands out is the way that she is so deliberate and
resolute about her actions. Once she has decided about the hopelessness of their
situation, and that there is no future for her, she is resolute about her choice to end
her life and kill herself. Nothing her husband can say to her will make her change her
mind. Note what the text tells us about her:
Always so deliberate, surprised by the most
outlandish advents. A creation perfectly evolved to meet its own
end.
Thus, when we think of
the character of the mother, it her deliberateness in what she does and chooses to do
that is clearly her key character trait. In a sense, although she abandons her husband
and son, we can also understand her point of view. Humanity is on the brink of
destruction and the only fate that she sees awaiting her is either being eaten or being
kept as a kind of sex slave and seeing her husband and son eaten or worse. No wonder she
was resolute about killing herself.
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