The Leaving Budge Wilson Analysis

“The Wandering” by Maureen Hayes and “The Leaving” by Budge Wilson are two stories that took place in major cities in Canada in the late 1900s. Both stories showed love and caring traits between the daughter and the mother, and they demonstrated their traits through their actions when under external and internal conflicts.

First, the protagonist from both stories faces external conflict with family “The Leaving” was taken place in Nova Scotia in the 1960s. At that time, female members of the family often get discriminated, they have to cook all the food, do all the chores in the family. This was shown when both Elizabeth and Sylvie got back from Halifax, the father ordered Elizabeth with a threatening voice to make supper for him
When Elizabeth and Sylvie come back from their trip after 3 days, “In the sink was a mountainous pile of dishes.” and the boys are just sitting at the table playing cards instead of cleaning up their mess. Back then she thinks that only women works and men can do whatever they want but now Elizabeth realizes that she was the reason her sons are like that. “All along I bin blamin’ men fer bein’ men. But now I see that oftentimes it’s the women that make them that way”. After she realizes her mistake, she tries to tell her sons to help out in the family, she hopes to at least change them so that when they have a family, they can help out their wives so that in the future generations, women and men have equal standing in the house.

Finally, In “The Leaving” Elizabeth and Sylvie are from a poor family. Even though her family was poor, she took Sylvie to an expensive trip to Halifax using the hard-earned money from selling eggs. She took her to Dalhousie university and told her that she want her to receive university’s education “maybe you’ll come here some day t’ learn". This shows how important Elizabeth values education and she wanted her daughter the best for her daughter. In “The