In Nancy Richler's "Your Mouth is Lovely" the story draws the reader into a dreary superstitious time. The time and setting of this story may be different but the importance of relationships is still shown to be universal in time and place. The narrator's circumstances come to be extraordinary but the difficulties with different mothers and changing routines in home to home are issues dealt with by the most ordinary of people. The importance of the relationship between a mother and a daughter is shown in this work by the impact of the narrator's relationship with her biological mother, surrogate mother, and stepmother.

The circumstances of the narrator's initial mother daughter relationship sets the young and innocent narrator on a path of self insecurity, a fear of emotional commitment, and a view of her biological mother which she associates with...