Vashti In The Machine

The first few pages of the story let the reader wonder which kind of mother is Vashti. Those pages convey the lack of a motherhood attention from Vashti toward her son Kuno.
Already on the second page, we can sense a feeling of hurry, She, Vashti, “ do not expect anything important will happen for the next five minutes-for [she] can give you fully five minutes [to] Kuno.” This quote gives doubt about the lack of love for Kuno as it can still be persuaded that she may probably be a busy woman with a tight schedule. However the recurrent appearance of words such as “Be quick” and the sentence “... her I am in the dark wasting my time.” show a lack of excitement of Vashti.
The reader might probably ask themselves about “her white face [who]
She is incapable of dividing her attention between both human beings and The Machine; her choice is evidently The Machine.
“... the Machine, to do our will, but we cannot make it do our will now. It has robbed us of the sense of space and of the sense of touch, it has blurred every human relation and narrowed down love to a carnal act, it has paralyzed our bodies and our wills, ...” Kuno tells his mother Vashti to warn her again the fake love that exists between her and the Machine. As a result, she replies “Go on, nothing you say can distress me now. I am hardened”.
Vashti has nothing more than a shallow feeling for human beings. More and more, she understood her duties towards the machines, she did not find any motherhood duties towards her son. Reciprocally, the relationship between the airship attendant and Vashti is perfect portraying the fact that Vashti does not believe that others, the whole humanity, have a duty toward her. She loves the machine, she does not love anyone else and for her, no one else has the right to love her back, except the machine. “You forget yourself!” she said when the airship assistant tried to help him. Indeed, the attendant has not the right to touch her, only The Machine have the right to either touch or save