Summary
When Alyse moved out of her mother's apartment, their relationship changed for the better. When they talked to each other on the phone they had pleasant conversations with each other that didn't end in an argument. However, when they talked about her mom coming to her apartment in Manhattan, there was some tension at the end of the phone call because Alyse told her mom that she is not allowed to smoke in her apartment. Her mom didn't come the day she was supposed to, and in fact, she never got to see Alyse's apartment. They didn't talk until a few months later, around Alyse's birthday, when Alyse's mom asked her if they could have lunch together, and when they met her mom gave Alyse some diamond earrings. Unfortunately, later that night when Alyse was on her way home someone took her purse which contained the earrings. She called the police and then told her mom about it, but after that they never spoke about the earrings again. As time goes by Alyse finds interest in this one man in her college course, and they start dating. Alyse brings him by to her mother's house from time to time, and they get along very well. Her mom is thrilled when Alyse tells her that they are engaged. Alyse's mom says that she wants to walk her down the aisle since her father isn't alive to do it, but Alyse says no and her mom is very disappointed. On the day of her wedding her mom shows up right before the wedding starts, and doesn't seem happy for her. Later on though, Alyse and her mother still have a good relationship. Two years after Alyse gets married she has a daughter, and Alyse promises herself that she would be a better mother than her own mother was before she moved out. Two years later Alyse got a phone call from her mom saying that she went to the emergency room because she had a lump in her throat and was having a hard time swallowing. The doctor told her that if she wanted to know the test results to call, but Alyse's mom didn't want to know them. So when Alyse called the doctor herself he told her that she had lung cancer which was caused from cigarettes, and she only had six weeks to live. Alyse didn't tell her mother this, but she found out the next day when she went to the doctor, and he told her she would need chemo right away. As the days went by Alyse's mom didn't wash or comb her hair because she was afraid that it would fall out. But one day Alyse told her mom that she needs to wash it and maybe she would be lucky and it wouldn't fall out. But when Alyse's mom came out the bathroom, her towel was over her head and she went to her room. Alyse walked into the bathroom and saw huge chunks of her mother's hair in the sink. They never talked about her hair after that.
Quote
"I didn't look at her as my husband and I walked down the aisle together, out in the back lawn, under the tent. But after the rabbi announced we were married and everyone clapped, I saw she was the only one who didn't." (Myers, 75).
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In this quote Alyse was talking about her mother. I felt sorry for Alyse's mom because I could tell that it would've meant a lot to her if she walked Alyse down the aisle. But since Alyse didn't want that her mother wasn't really as happy on that day as any other mother would be for their child. Her mom probably felt that walking her down the aisle was the least she could do for her, and Alyse took that away. I'm not saying that Alyse is a bad person and her wedding shouldn't go the way she wants it to, but I think she should've made the sacrifice for her mother's happiness. But I also wanted to know why her mother couldn't have at least clapped along with everyone else. She could've at least did it so Alyse wouldn't feel bad on her wedding day. So in this case I felt sorry for the both of them. But this still didn't distance their relationship from each other. After her wedding day, their relationship grew closer and closer.
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