Where D You Bernadette Character Analysis
Where’d you Bernadette by Maria Semple is a novel about a woman who has a daughter and a husband. She seems to be a weird person at the beginning, but as the story goes through you find out why is acting that way. She ends up by going away and leaving her family, but at the end everything gets together again. Maria Semple likes to compare family’s issues because in the entire book is writing about how the characters interact between them. Although, Semple seems to be a sophisticated author, the role of mother in WDYB is the biggest topic to analyze on the full story. On this novel there are several mothers who can be examples of the types of motherhoods. Bernadette’s motherhood can be the easiest example to notice in the whole novel. Bernadette
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I see definitely Audrey’s motherhood as the ordinary mother that wants to look like she is the best mom in the world. She pretends to know everything about her son, despite, she doesn’t know anything about him. Her son takes drugs and he sales them at the school although consistently are Audrey’s own medication. For example, when the Gwen Goodyear, the principal of Galer Street, calls Audrey to go to her office to talk in private. Audrey goes into, and she finds out that Kyle (her son) is there. The principal wants to tell Audrey that in the locker of her controversial son was a bottle of medicine. Gwen asks questions about how he could get that bottle. But as a typical mother, she is just defending Kyle with the answer that it was her medicine from the car accident with Bernadette. Audrey just acts and assumes that her son is outstanding and she states, “Now that I write this, I’d like to know what Gwen Goodyear was doing in Kyle’s locker room. Don’t they have locks on them? Isn’t that why they’re called lockers?” (59). Audrey wants to give the impression that is a caring mother and wife. In my point of view, Audrey just wants to socialize and gossip about the other moms in Galer Street, including Bernadette. She is always sending emails to the other moms in the school board. She is pretending that she is helping the school, when actually she is just making gossip around
I see definitely Audrey’s motherhood as the ordinary mother that wants to look like she is the best mom in the world. She pretends to know everything about her son, despite, she doesn’t know anything about him. Her son takes drugs and he sales them at the school although consistently are Audrey’s own medication. For example, when the Gwen Goodyear, the principal of Galer Street, calls Audrey to go to her office to talk in private. Audrey goes into, and she finds out that Kyle (her son) is there. The principal wants to tell Audrey that in the locker of her controversial son was a bottle of medicine. Gwen asks questions about how he could get that bottle. But as a typical mother, she is just defending Kyle with the answer that it was her medicine from the car accident with Bernadette. Audrey just acts and assumes that her son is outstanding and she states, “Now that I write this, I’d like to know what Gwen Goodyear was doing in Kyle’s locker room. Don’t they have locks on them? Isn’t that why they’re called lockers?” (59). Audrey wants to give the impression that is a caring mother and wife. In my point of view, Audrey just wants to socialize and gossip about the other moms in Galer Street, including Bernadette. She is always sending emails to the other moms in the school board. She is pretending that she is helping the school, when actually she is just making gossip around