On the mother-daughter relationship in the play

In the context of the Great Depression, the heroine Mildred divorced her husband after bankruptcy. It was difficult for her daughter Veda to accept this fact, which constituted the first layer of estrangement between mother and daughter. The death of the youngest daughter, Ray, and the absence of Mildred constitute a second barrier between mother and daughter. The identity of class identity and differences in ideological values ​​constitute the third layer of estrangement between mother and daughter. The real tipping point for the mother-daughter relationship is the addition of Monty as her lover, who ends up driving the mother-daughter relationship to the end of her life, with Veda's like-mindedness.
Before the depression, the Mildred family lived a prosperous life. Because the mother Mildred, who was born in the middle and lower classes, was dissatisfied with the arrangement of fate and yearned for the life of the upper class, she pinned her hopes on the eldest daughter Veda and gave her an aristocratic elite education. After the depression, Mildred, who was a single mother, had a difficult life. The imbalance of the economic situation forced Mildred to change some of his inherent thinking and had to commit himself to working in a small restaurant to maintain his family. However, all of this was a shame in Mildred's view, and he was ashamed of his pair of daughters. As a result, she has never been able to face her daughter's doubts, but just blindly concealed the fact that she was working part-time to appease her daughter's emotions. The deterioration of the economic situation has changed some of Mildred's values, but she still adheres to the original elite education in educating her daughter Veda, and always maintains her daughter Veda in a hypocritical upper-class life to cultivate her aristocratic temperament, which disguised her daughter. Pushed on the false moral high ground, always put himself in a passive disadvantaged position. In the face of his daughter Mildred is always inferior, coupled with Mildred's long-term arrogance to Veda, which invisibly constitutes an unequal mother-daughter relationship.
Mother Mildred and daughter Veda grow up and live in two different life states. Different values ​​and ideas are the root cause of their conflicts. The mother's long-term doting and the deepening of the gap between mother and daughter make this deformity and distortion. The mother-daughter relationship was formed. In addition, Mildred, as a mother, tried to use her work to relieve her pain after her youngest daughter died of a divorce from her husband. She only gave her daughter Veda materially, but lacked spiritual communication and guidance, and always lacked the courage to face up to her daughter's doubts. The escape mentality is a kind of absence of affection.

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