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deep. As Paul grew older she never suffered alone for her
husband’s faults and what she lacked in life because ‘her children
suffered with her’. ‘It hurt the boy keenly, this feeling about her, that she
had never had her life’s fulfilment’ so much so that it became his
‘childish aim’ to provide it. When he began to work ‘it was almost as if it
were her own life’. ‘Paul almost hated his mother’ for this suffering when
his father did not come home from work. He felt she should not waste
herself on a man like his father when she could rely on her son. This
stems from the jealousy Paul feels of his father because of his place in the
household, in his mother’s affections and efforts, all of which he
disregards.
Paul never had a strong constitution as he was subject to bouts of
bronchitis. Described as ‘delicate’, this accounted for his mother’s
‘difference in feeling for ...

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life now rooted
itself in Paul’. She told him all her troubles and ‘he took it in as best he
could’ as a child and a man.
Although the book depicts Paul as being more himself when he is with
Miriam it is necessary for him to have his mother to soothe him. ‘His
ridiculous hyper-sensitiveness made her heart ache’ and it made him
miserable so he found relief in the company of his mother. However,
Miriam cultivated this sensitive nature to match her own and to such an
extent that he can’t bear to be himself or see himself reflected in Miriam.
He begins to hate Miriam because she does this to him, she makes him
what he doesn’t want to be, ...

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