Shopping
...s that the Saturday morning shopping trip will somehow bring back the "young" Nola who used to love the weekly trip to the mall. The mother-daughter bond is fragile but unbreakable.(Rosen) For Mrs. Dietrich, it is the one bond that brought complete happiness in her life. As she blossomed in pregnancy she remembers her husband "never-before so happy, and never since.(paragraph 30) The birth of her daughter would be herself again, reborn and this time perfect. The tremendous expectation being a perfect daughter seems to push Nola away from her mother. Daughters never realize the love that a mother feels for their child until they too become a mother. Nola is trying to be independent while still seeking Mother's approval. She wants Mrs. Dietrich to approve of her clothes, her future studies, even her dislike of their own relationship. She smokes a cigarette to show her mother how grown up she is and dares her mother to object. We always hurt the ones we love. Nola seems to love Mrs. Dietrich very much. I can see that Nola is more independent than Mrs. Dietrich. "The best mother-daughter ties are ones where they care so much, they see the other's faults but want to protect the other from knowing that they see them." (Fingerman)She doesn't seem to be the type to let support her. Her mother should be proud of that and encourage her to travel to foreign countries to study and be ...