While her husband was completely worthless to the family, she wasnt much better. A horrible mother. Those kids ran wild and raised themselves. If my children were starving, dying, and wearing rags, I'd put the tea and cigs down and use the money to tend to my children a bit better.
shareThe movie is pretty true to Angela as described in the book. She was pretty useless, just sitting by the fire drinking team and smoking her cigarettes. As I recall, she also lost all her teeth.
The points about depression, post-partum and from the children's deaths, is probably spot on. It's notable though that Frank never seemed to adore her like he did his useless feck of a father.
Oh lovely.
Posts like this are such a joy. They highlight the compassion the everyday person feels for the less fortunate.
Please don't try and equate your situation with Angela's. You live in a completely different time.
Here is a woman who has lost 3 children, is trying to cope with small children and a useless, drunk of a husband, is swallowing her pride to go and beg for food and furniture, is feeling so trapped and frightened that the only thing she feels she has left to sell to a disgusting pig of a relative is her body - just so that she can keep a roof over her young family's head.
You may have struggles, but you don't have hers. So just try and show some compassion for someone who isn't you!
Someone who is in a more fortunate situation than you may one day come along and judge you. They may find you to be lacking in some way. That would be equally wrong because no one understands the intricacies of our lives better than we do ourselves.
We are all a product of our own history and situations.
No one is claiming that Angela is up for Mother of The Year Award, but she was doing what she could the only way she knew how.
Nothing irriates me more than when someone has the arrogance to say "if I were so and so I'd do this."
I call BS, you don't know until you are that person in that situation!
So put some spice in my sauce, honey in my tea, an ace up my sleeve and a slinkyplanb