Mother's Day: be grateful for the mother you've got. At least she's not one of these 10 classic mum villains from literature
Mother's Day: it's easy to forget that Daisy in The Great Gatsby is a mother at all
The Telegraph - 15 Mar 2015
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Daisy Buchanan – The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
It's easy to forget that Fitzgerald's jazz-age aristocrat is a mother. Daisy's daughter is hardly in the book at all, with Daisy too busy being betwitched by Jay Gatsby to spend much time parenting. She does mention that when she was first told she had given birth to a daughter, she replied: "I hope she'll be a fool – that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool." Not much maternal ambition there.
BADNESS RATING: 2/5
Charlotte Haze – Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
We only ever see Charlotte Haze through the eyes of Humbert Humbert, who shows her initially as a vaguely repulsive obstacle to Humbert's advances on the young Lolita, and then even more worthy of his disgust because of her own dislike of her daughter. Charlotte seems to realise that Lolita is competing for Humbert's affections, but that only makes Charlotte like her even less. Difficult to forgive.
BADNESS RATING: 4/5
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BADNESS RATING: 4/5
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