1. "Sophie". Sophie describes her feelings towards her mother and her aunt. What does she tell the reader and how does she feel about each of them?
Sophie has so much resentment for her mother bottled up within her that it's ridiculous. She feels hatred towards her mother because she thinks that her mother isn't treating her equally to the other members of the family. I can see why Sophie has so much irritation because her mother is incredibly rude and would drive anyone to the point of insanity.
Fran, however, she is unsure about. She thinks, from the few times that they've met, she's a pretty cool Aunt who is casual and nice. I guess she just wanted anyone to escape from her mother. She likes to make her mother jealous by talking about Fran in a conversation. She loves to brag about Fran just to make her mother annoyed.
2. "Fran". What two feelings is Fran trapped between?
Fran is quite bi-polar in chapter 2. At first, she hates the idea of her troubled niece, Sophie, coming to stay with her for a while. After the recent passing of her husband, she had decided to move into the house that her parents left for her and to just have some nice, quiet time painting and relaxing. Beginning again. So, when she received the phone call, she could have said no. She was thinking nasty, terrible thoughts about how her sister was dumping her daughter onto her and she resented that but she still agreed to it. Through the chapter, she decided that maybe if she improved Sophie, she could rub in Geraldine's face because she brought her daughter up better than her actual mother. This sister-rivalhood was very apparent in the chapter.
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