Why Didn T Love Lily

In the beginning of the book we knew nothing about her mother. Mostly about how T- ray is the meanest man in the world. In the novel lily said that he wouldn’t let her read or have fun. What she had to do was help him work his peach farm all day. Lily also said that she hated him for telling her that her mother didn’t love her. So to lily T-ray was an abusive and alcholic father that didn’t love lily at all. And all we heard about her mother was that she loved lily before she died. In the novel lily kept a box of some of her things which was white gloves a picture of her and a colored mary picture. Lily was basically obsessed with her mother and the thought of her mother loving her. But she didnt know the actual story until she met the housekeeper

And Deborah loved him. But when Deborah told T-ray about being pregnant thats when he got mad and they got married. So lily probably thought at this point that T-ray never did love her.then august told her that her mother did come to stay here leaving her behing for a couple months. Lily was thinking that her mother didn’t love her because she left without her and didnt come back. After that lily was mad at her mother that she didnt love her own daughter. August tried telling her that it wasn’t true but lily didnt believe it. When T- ray came to get lily he thought he was looking at deborah again and feeling that she left him so he got angry. Lily could tell that T-ray wasnt thionking right and shouted daddy. Then something clicked. In the novel he realized that it was lily and not Deborah and felt bad because she looks exactly like his wife. T-ray eventually realized that lily was better off with the boatwrights than him. In the novel T- ray then confessed that the day her mother died was actually the day she was coming back for lily. He had lied because she wasn’t coming back for him. I think at this point lily actually felt bad for him because he did love her but he just didn’t realize