"the revolt of mother"
...modern accommodations. That’s why Mother and Father had to do everything themselves. Mother raised the children, milked the cow, and cooked the food, which she produced on her own farm. Father also had many responsibilities, such as tending to the animals and farming. They both worked a lot—completed their own given tasks. This separates them from each other, and at the same time, adds to their character. To all his wife’s questions—what he’s doing, what he’s building—Father has one answer, “Ain’t got nothin’ to say about it.” The reader wonders why Father does not share his thoughts with his wife. Maybe he thinks that she is not able to understand the necessity of building another barn. His reticence and stubbornness pushes his wife away form him. She does not show her pain. She remembers his promise, forty years ago, to build a more spacious house for their family, when her daughter Nanny brings it up. “Mother, don’t you think it’s too bad father’s going to build that new barn, much as we need a decent house to live in?” A woman, like any mother, loves her children. Furthermore, if the child is weak, the mother’s love for the child increases, with addition of compassion. “She’s got considerable color, but there wasn’t never any backbone to her. …s...