In the short story “The Metaphor”, Budge Wilson creates an unapproachable mother, whose arrogance places her family in misery. First of all we realize that Charlotte’s mother is an emotionless robot. For example, when Charlotte deduced her passion about her favourite English teacher, her mother bitterly utteres, “Is she that brassy miss Hancock whom I met at the parent-teacher meeting?” (5) and describes miss Hancock as an, “Overdone, too much, enthusiasm, flamboyant, orange hair [person]”(5). She demonstrates a strong dislike for the flashiness of miss Hancock, who proclaims it with pride . She does not delay to calls miss Hancock ornate leaving concerns aside for Charlotte’s feelings about miss Hancock. Secondly, Charlotte’s mother is a bitter