'Your Shoes': karakteristik af moderen

CHARACTER SKETCH OF MOTHER IN THE STORY “YOUR SHOES” BY MICHELE ROBERTS

A short story “Your shoes” was written by Michelle Roberts in 1993. The story is written as a monologue of a mother, who is sad because her daughter run away from home. The mother is talking to the shoes her daughter left and the more we read the less sympathetic the mother becomes. She develops from an upset woman into a very mad woman at the end.

The mother is a teacher, she is married and has a daughter.

After she realized her daughter’s run away from home, she starts to think what her daughter might do to survive: “How do you feed yourself out there on the street? You’re too young to get a job, who’d have you and what could you possibly do? What do you have to do to be fed? Do you have to go with men, is that it?” (p.30, l. 9-12).

She feels so stressed and hurt so she reveals she is close to being maddened by pain: “If I imagine that you’re gone for good, that you’ll never come back, then this terrible wailing sound will begin and never stop, I might go mad” (p.29, l. 19-21).