How is motherhood presented in any two or three stories in the collection?



-Evening Under Frangipani



Elaine's mother is introduced in the story when she invited Parkash for a meal. He refered that Elaine's mother was sarcastic and unfriendly to him. She wants Elaine to have someone better, someone capable to support Elaine and her family. She cares for Elaine when Parkash and Elaine broke up, this shows that Elaine's mother is sarcastic but also cares and only wants the best out of Elaine.



-The Martyrdom of Helena Rodrigues



From the start of story,we can see that Helena is a mother that likes to control people judging by the way that she controls her husband. Her husband had died.Her next target was her own son.Helena would nurture in him a hypersensitiviy of conscience which bordered upon the pathological;she brought him up to believe that insult his mother's devotion to him was the ultimate blasphemy.Far more securely than her husband,Aloysius had been,George was kept tied to Helena's side. As he gets older, George met his lover and they wanted to get married. On the other hand Helena has fakes illnesses, but Helena's old friend Doctor de Cruz took them seirously and told terrified George thatt his mother's heart was not strong as she did not want George to get married. She wants George to always be by her side as she is lonely and needs company.