Susie's Mom Moving Away Analysis

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The fact that Susie's mom takes a break from her family and moves to California gave her a chance to get over Susie's death and come back as a better person. Susie’s mom is torn up over Susie's death like everyone else and she makes rash decisions to try to forcefully push the pain away. One of the decisions she makes is to cheat on her husband with the detective of her daughter's murder, Len. But she doesn’t do this out of love, her main driving force is instead to distract herself from reality. This can be noticed through what Susie sees, “My mother was moving physically through time to flee from me.” (152) and “I knew what was happening. Her rage. Her loss. Het despair. The whole life lost tumbling out in an arc on that roof, clogging up her being. …show more content…

She wants to be able to have time to move on. This can be seen during a ceremony for

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