Lovely Literature

So when it comes down to it, Amanda is annoying as heck. She is stuck in her yester-year and she just can't seem to get out of it. In a way I think she is very similar to her daughter because she kind of has social problems as her magazine subscription job shows. She tries way too hard to be social though and her daughter cannot begin to be social.

Amanda chooses to ignore her daughter's ailment and simply dismisses it as a defect constantly which personally I think sounds worse that cripple. She constantly uses euphemisms to make it sound better for her benefit. The most annoy part about her though was when Jim O'Connor came over and she was trying to act like a teenager again. I feel as though she was trying to make him fall for her because she doesn't receive any male attention anymore besides her annoyed son. She is controlling and manipulative and she demands that attention be on her.

On a nice note though, Amanda really does love her children. She seems to want to do all she can for them even though she isn't too great at providing for them since that's all on Tom. The problem is that when she has a heartfelt moment with her children, she immediately turns it around and says something annoying or rude or nagging to her children. I can see why Tom is driven crazy and wants to get out. I know that if I had Amanda as my mom I would want to get out too :/