Who is Mother from My Life and what is their importance? My_Life_(novel) English & Literature Mother | My Life

Mother is the narrator's matriarch who moved from Alaska as a child, and her childhood is a kind of melodrama. She falls and breaks her arm while stamping down the trash. Mother watches the visible lights from the window. At the beach, she holds her children's hands and lectures them on the undertow as they try to jump the waves. The narrator secretly vomits in the school bathroom because she misses her mother. The narrator does not want a tenth birthday party; she only wants her mother from whom she is separated by her friends. Mother throws away all objects of sentiment. Mother is born ten years before Rilke dies though she never encounters him while boarding the steamers from Alaska as a child.