Pearl Abusive Mother

[I give up know so I am pretty much only gonna put my quotes]. Pearl turns into an abusive mother after Beck leaves her. When she is dying she realizes that “She had been an angry sort of mother. She’d been continually on edge; she’d felt too burdened, too much alone” (Tyler 19). After having to move continuously when married to Beck, “the isolation and responsibility of being a single parent cause such strain for Pearl that she often attacks her own children in verbal and physical abuse” (Henningfeld 2). Pearl is so abusive to her children, “Which of her children had not felt her stinging slap, with the claw-encased pearl in her engagement ring that could bloody a lip at one flick? (Tyler 70). Pearl explanation for why she hurt her kids. “Pearl believed that in struggling to raise three children alone she acted out of helplessness and fear, overwhelmed by the responsibilities of motherhood” (Eckard 3). “She is ultimately as tough on herself as on her children...sometimes too tough, physically and psychologically abusing them in uncontrollable fits of anger” (Telgen 2).

After continuously moving from one place to another, Pearl eventually stopped introducing herself to her neighbors. “She dropped the effort of continually meeting new neighbors...all she cared about was sealing up the house” (Tyler 16). Throughout the rest of her years,“Pearl remained aloof and detached from her community” (Eckard 4). Pearl did not care about other people, “They depended on each other, because of moving around so much” (Tyler 11). “Wherever she and her husband settled, Pearl kept herself isolated from the community, a pattern that continued throughout her life” (Telgen