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Sue Monk Kidd Character Analysis

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Another concept Sue Monk Kidd presents to the reader is the continual emotional devastation Lily experiences because of her mother’s death and father’s opposition. To start off with, throughout the novel is apparent Lily has never found solace with her mother’s departure. However, Lily has a vague memory of a conflict that supposedly resulted in her mother’s death when Lily was only a toddler. Yet, her inability to understand what is the truth and her internal quest to discover what exactly happened that day continually progresses Lily’s characterization and self-discovery. As seen by her internal conflict, while at her house in Sylvan, “This is what I know about myself. She was all I wanted. And I took her away,” (Kidd 8), Lily believes that
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