Was Roxy's mother in a normal mental state?

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I just feel she has not completely accepted the loss of her daughter. I think her state of denial has made her shut Roxy away.
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Even though she has a kind of religion extremist way of addressing things, I think she lost herself completely after the death of her husband and her child. Besides Roxy shouldn't have had sex with Steve on my mother's bed, it's very wrong. But her mom should have found a better way to approach the issue not that she should send her out of the house.
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I can't say she was in a normal mental state. She was obsessed with her dead daughter and refused to acknowledge Roxy's existence. Also, the way she threw her only daughter out of her house can never be considered normal in any circumstance.
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Post by IbrahimOtegbade »

She's okay, but her actions deserve some serious literary psychoanalysis. That her beloved daughter and husband have died has some mental effects on her. Also, I think she is a stereotypic character that represents the religious perception of people about sexual relationship.
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Roxy's mom didn't know how to deal with grief. She strikes me as some one looking for something to hold on to. Tossing in the wind with no anchor, disconnected from the world.
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I think the woman is crazy. Period!
The was she was screaming because she assumed her daughter slept with her boyfriend on her bed. She didn't even catch them red handed.
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Silvo wrote: 06 Aug 2022, 07:38 Roxy's mother was one of the unique characters I saw in the book. She sends her real daughter out of her home and doesn't care if she'll be back. Do you think she might be suffering from some mental illness after her other daughter died?
I think she's not mentally unwell, but since she uses her surviving daughter as a coping mechanism to reinforce her denial over the death of her other daughter, I would just say that she refuses to accept her depressing reality. She's also devoutly religious so that might play a part in how she treats her daughter when Roxy behaves in what she deems as a 'sacrilegious manner'.
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Post by Ebele Ekelobi »

She was overly religious to the point of obsession and the same is the situation with her love for her dead daughter. So it's not particularly a mental illness.
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Post by Judy O »

I don't think Roxy's mother was ill. Rather I think she was overwhelmed by religion. She was very religious, and some of Roxy's behaviors might not have sat well with her.
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Her response to Steve and Roxy having sex on her bed was expected for me, but everything else I can't say for sure. The way she seemed to never see Roxy as her own person was just hurtful, and after losing half of your family, it's not normal to kick the one person you have left. She was probably in normal state of health, she just wasn't a decent mother to Roxy, maybe as a result of what happened but that, for me, is no excuse.
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I think Roxy's mother is not ok mental because of Roxy's sister's death.
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I don't believe she was mentally ill. I think she held her Christian values very high and could not accept that Roxy and Steve we're disrespectful enough fornicate it on her bed. I believe she threw her out because of anger and disappointment. Probably as a way to punish her. Maybe if Roxy had shown remorse for her actions, things would have turned out differently.
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I think she was in a normal mental state but still grieving the death of her favourite child. Not caring for Roxy wasn't something new, she clearly didn't care for her when she was younger.
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I think she might have suffered from a mental illness when her daughter died. It will take so much for a mother who has lost a child to still remain sane and the same.
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Silvo wrote: 06 Aug 2022, 07:38 Roxy's mother was one of the unique characters I saw in the book. She sends her real daughter out of her home and doesn't care if she'll be back. Do you think she might be suffering from some mental illness after her other daughter died?
Roxy's mother was one of the stronger characters in the book, and she had quite an interesting backstory. I do think that her religious views and her grief contribute a lot to what she does in the book, and I think it showed how she mentally unfit to be anybody's parent at that moment.
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