After where I left off, his mother is introduced to the readers. She seems like a reason he may have hated his life. She's opposite from any motherly symbol; she drinks, smokes, walks in on him taking a bath and asks him to kill the rabbits which her daughter died because of. She may be distraught but I still find it a bit weird that she would walk in on her son bathing to tell him not to leave for war. Why when he's bathing and getting rid of his bruises and scars? Why could she not do this afterwards or before? She's being motherly but it's so ironic that the way she's being portayed seems like she could be the worst mother out there judging from the cigarette in her hand and the fact that she's drunk talking to her son. That is definitely not a good influence.I sense a bit of the Oedipus complex building in this story.. this time it's not the son being attracted to his mother, but something reversed. There are still no mentions of his father yet.. perhaps this is why his mother is a alcoholic and walks in on her son/ depends on him?
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