No. She wasn’t a good mother. Here’s why:
At first, she never really thought or cared for the real welfare of her son. Now, some people may
find this contradictory, but let’s emphasize in the part where she is being interviewed and was then
asked on why didn’t she sent Jack away and let him live a normal childhood. Now, what she did, if
inspected closely, was not actually a bad choice, if Jack were to go on his own to the world, ‘Room’
would go after him. Stepping on his toes in every way of life, he chose and even more when he
remembered he abandoned his mother. So does that mean that what the mother did was correct?
Yes.
And the reason why a ‘no’ is specified earlier is because what she did was not a bad choice, or at
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She said things like: Why would I do that? Or, He had me. She basically kept him
for herself and never thought of how his life would be outside the room. Now if she were to think
about it, then maybe it could be acceptable, but she didn’t and that just makes her a terrible mother.
So, she did it, she sent Jack in a journey where no one knew how it would end up. She could claim
plan successful and could, return to her normal lifestyle. But how normal was it now? No one in
history has faced such terrible circumstances and get away without a mental disorder, say PTSD
(Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). So, as it was to be expected, at least for the viewers, Joy did
experience terrible retaliation from herself and the old-yet new-world. She didn’t suffer from PTSD
but rather something that didn’t allowed her to communicate with her new reality. She missed the
strange sense of familiarity that the shed provided them.
Jack’s case was not so different, he liked this new world, but he still couldn’t fully understand it. Her
mother taught Jack a way the world functioned. Or well, the world because there was no world.