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27. oktober 2006 af
Sweet-Tina (Slettet)
No relationship is quite as primal as the one between a mother and her daughter.
But mothers and daughters aren't always best friends. Storm clouds in the adult mother-daughter relationship most often arise over one very basic question:
choice of life.
Not acknowledging this choice can destabilize this primordial relationship, this is also what happens in this short story by Ursula Hegi ”The Juggler”.
The narrator an elderly single mother, and her gorgeous daughter Zoe has had an extraordinarily strong bond. The daughter has helped her mother throughout some troubled times after her father left them.
The mother wish the best possible life for her daughter, but when she finds out, that her daughter is about to marriage a blind man who, probably will be a huge burden on her daughter’s shoulders, she is quite astounded:
”Here I thought I had done all the letting go, had prepared myself for it since the day Zoe took her first uncertain step away from me, but it never occurred to me that I would turn her over to someone who’d need her this much“( Page.2 L.30).
This illustrates that the narrator do not think Michael is a suitable mach to her daughter Zoe.
It is ironic that the narrator has been mentally/physically blind, when not seeing her daughter needs in her childhood. The narrator cannot foresee that is natural for her daughter to chose a habitual pattern which is identical with the one she had in her childhood, when her father left them.
It is obvious that the narrators ignorance of her daughter needs, in the past has lead to her daughters choice of man. The mother is well aware of the fact that even though Michael is blind and not the man she wish for Zoe, he makes her daughter feels as she is on cloud nine:
“Zoe turns, smiling at him with so much light in her eyes that I have to look away”(Page.3 L.74).
It is unambiguous that the narrator is of the opinion that Zoe´s husband, Is taking her place. The narrator must have been lonesome, when her husband left her, Therefore she ignores Zoe´s needs an takes an iron grip on her, as a defence mechanism but that only pushes her daughter further away.
So one could imagine that the narrator do not have a problem with Michael or his blindness, but that fact her daughter has chosen him instead of her. When she say’s she wish more for Zo’e, its just a egoistic way of saying, that she is the only one in her daughters life. The mothers lack of direction in her own life, and then seeing her daughter being confident of her choices in life only make her feel more lost and superfluous :
“Sometimes I felt that Zoe and I were growing up together. Other times it felt like I was eleven and she thirty” (Page.3 L.90).
The daughter is deeply in love with this blind man, who works as a counselor at the elementary school where Zoe teaches. Although Michael still can see shapes, he does not have much of his eyesight left (page. 1 L. 1-2: “He is as tall as Zoe; yet, when he talks with her, he fastens his gaze to some place above her”). No information is given on Michael's age, but he may not getting any younger (p. 1 ll. 12-13: “He has the kind of profile I’ve seen on antique coins…”). Nevertheless, Michael still appears to be a fascinating gentleman who gets on splendidly with the opposite sex. Even the narrator also says that she is fond of Michael but, he is just not suitable because he is stealing her daughter from her.
The hierarchy within the family in this short story, is capriciously turned upside down.
The role of a mother and daughter is switched, the narrator is described as a child who seeks someone to set limits and guide her throughout life.
Therefore the daughter has unconsciously taken the role as an adult figure, who set limits, and basically is the rational and understanding one.
The magical number from fairy tales, is used to illustrate a relevant point in this short story. The narrator are introduced to a juggler two period of times, its evident to notice that at first the mother ignore the juggler’s entertainment, and hurries to the cinema but in the ending she sees his show and notice something which change her whole viewpoint:” always 2 of one kind and one of another (Page 6.L 213)”.
At the end of the day she sees, that two of one kind is Michael and herself, they are both in lack of direction, while the daughter is their tour guide in life.
But mothers and daughters aren't always best friends. Storm clouds in the adult mother-daughter relationship most often arise over one very basic question:
choice of life.
Not acknowledging this choice can destabilize this primordial relationship, this is also what happens in this short story by Ursula Hegi ”The Juggler”.
The narrator an elderly single mother, and her gorgeous daughter Zoe has had an extraordinarily strong bond. The daughter has helped her mother throughout some troubled times after her father left them.
The mother wish the best possible life for her daughter, but when she finds out, that her daughter is about to marriage a blind man who, probably will be a huge burden on her daughter’s shoulders, she is quite astounded:
”Here I thought I had done all the letting go, had prepared myself for it since the day Zoe took her first uncertain step away from me, but it never occurred to me that I would turn her over to someone who’d need her this much“( Page.2 L.30).
This illustrates that the narrator do not think Michael is a suitable mach to her daughter Zoe.
It is ironic that the narrator has been mentally/physically blind, when not seeing her daughter needs in her childhood. The narrator cannot foresee that is natural for her daughter to chose a habitual pattern which is identical with the one she had in her childhood, when her father left them.
It is obvious that the narrators ignorance of her daughter needs, in the past has lead to her daughters choice of man. The mother is well aware of the fact that even though Michael is blind and not the man she wish for Zoe, he makes her daughter feels as she is on cloud nine:
“Zoe turns, smiling at him with so much light in her eyes that I have to look away”(Page.3 L.74).
It is unambiguous that the narrator is of the opinion that Zoe´s husband, Is taking her place. The narrator must have been lonesome, when her husband left her, Therefore she ignores Zoe´s needs an takes an iron grip on her, as a defence mechanism but that only pushes her daughter further away.
So one could imagine that the narrator do not have a problem with Michael or his blindness, but that fact her daughter has chosen him instead of her. When she say’s she wish more for Zo’e, its just a egoistic way of saying, that she is the only one in her daughters life. The mothers lack of direction in her own life, and then seeing her daughter being confident of her choices in life only make her feel more lost and superfluous :
“Sometimes I felt that Zoe and I were growing up together. Other times it felt like I was eleven and she thirty” (Page.3 L.90).
The daughter is deeply in love with this blind man, who works as a counselor at the elementary school where Zoe teaches. Although Michael still can see shapes, he does not have much of his eyesight left (page. 1 L. 1-2: “He is as tall as Zoe; yet, when he talks with her, he fastens his gaze to some place above her”). No information is given on Michael's age, but he may not getting any younger (p. 1 ll. 12-13: “He has the kind of profile I’ve seen on antique coins…”). Nevertheless, Michael still appears to be a fascinating gentleman who gets on splendidly with the opposite sex. Even the narrator also says that she is fond of Michael but, he is just not suitable because he is stealing her daughter from her.
The hierarchy within the family in this short story, is capriciously turned upside down.
The role of a mother and daughter is switched, the narrator is described as a child who seeks someone to set limits and guide her throughout life.
Therefore the daughter has unconsciously taken the role as an adult figure, who set limits, and basically is the rational and understanding one.
The magical number from fairy tales, is used to illustrate a relevant point in this short story. The narrator are introduced to a juggler two period of times, its evident to notice that at first the mother ignore the juggler’s entertainment, and hurries to the cinema but in the ending she sees his show and notice something which change her whole viewpoint:” always 2 of one kind and one of another (Page 6.L 213)”.
At the end of the day she sees, that two of one kind is Michael and herself, they are both in lack of direction, while the daughter is their tour guide in life.
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