Mother

Poverty, abjection, unwillingness... Life played one joke after another on her, including her son's unfilial piety, her eldest daughter's illness, her second daughter's financial difficulties, the expense of her younger daughter's education, her husband's laziness... Everything made her despair, constantly exuding malice towards the people around her, and living in the way she hated the most... This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.