Analysis Of She's Come Undone By Wally Lamb

Sigmund's Freud's theory is composed of four sexual stages that are necessary for the development of any individual. The stages include oral, anal, phallic, and genital. Freud believed through his highly controversial theory, that if one indeed fails to complete or skips over a sexual stage entirely it will reflect on the individual's adult personality and mental health/illness development. While both studying freud's theory and closely reading the novel She’s come undone by Wally Lamb the reader begins to notice that the protagonist Dolores's fractured persona and slight mental illness is a result of failing to complete a sexual stage, in her case it was stage one, the oral stage.In Wally Lambs’ novel “She's Come Undone”, the protagonist, Dolores Price, is stripped of her innocence from an adolescent age. Growing up Dolores deals with an era of

They use their mouths as a form of punishment. In addition, those individuals are ought to be extremely sarcastic. In Dolores's case, due to all the neglect she received from her father, Dolores's mother buys Dolores a ton of food to cope with the pain. Although Dolores's mother believed that feeding Dolores would help her out, since food releases the happy hormone serotonin, this coping method would only be harming Dolores in the long run. The access of calories and lack of physical activity begins to overburden her physical and mental stability. Dolores only feels that food is what she is capable of manage in her life. She can decide when to eat, or how much she wants to eat. Whereas, in other areas of her life she has little to any control at all. Although, what Dolores fails to realize is that food is controlling her. Because she turns to food whenever she feels any type of emotion. She is incapable of just feeling the emotions without attempting to “commemorate” or “unheralded” without