Sedaris:The Girl Next Door

It really amazed me to finish this reading and hear Brandi refer to David Sedaris as a faggot after his attempts to be friendly and nurturing to her. And to read that she called his mother a bitch was even more disheartening. It was obvious that her mother had fed her these words because where else would a little 9 year old girl hear these terms and where to direct them. This can be considered what a bad mother can be, a mother should be thoughtful and careful what she says around her daughter who being young and impressionable will most likely repeat what she hears. Sedaris's mother although a more ideal mother figure still has petty arguments with her son and tries to undermine what he is doing, but it is obviously doing out of love. And that is what i think to be the most important criteria. What makes a mother who she is is the love that she has for her children, she cares about them, thinks of them first is not lost in her life and not caught up on who and what has done her wrong. Both these mothers obviously love their children but they do not think of only them they keep their grudges and think ill of others, both trying to persuade Sedaris and the little girl that they were no good for each other and even evil.