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Life Of Mrs Bigelow
This novel is about the life of two main characters, Rabble Starkey and her mother Sweet Ho. Sweet Ho works for the Bigelow family, Mr. and Mrs. Bigelow. Rabble becomes best friends with their daughter, Virginia Bigelow. Seeing that Rabble doesn’t come from a conventional family; she looks to the Bigelows to feel and appreciate what a cohesive and “typical” family is like. Mrs. Bigelow has a mental disability that ultimately affects her way of life, especially parenting. Lowry demonstrates the severity of her disability through a horrid scene where she almost kills her younger son by hold his head underwater in a nearby pond, claiming to be “baptizing” the child. Mrs. Bigelow is then taken away from her family and institutionalized. Sweet Ho
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