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The Son´s Veto • Why is it called that?

How does the author make us sympathise with the mother? • Compare the two responses

How does the author make us sympathise with the mother? Thomas Hardy makes us feel sympathy for Sophy in The Sons Veto. To start off , the story tells us a lot about the mother’s poor past. “She had done it all herself, poor thing, she had no maid, and it was almost the only accomplishment she could boast on”(7). This line conveys how sad Sophy’s life was. She gets called the ‘Chaired Lady’ which suggest’s that to other people she is unimportant, or she does not even exist in their eyes. Other words that Hardy uses to describe Sophy are ‘disabled’ and ‘poor’. This is very upsetting. Randolph, who is her own son, is not nice to her as well. He corrects her grammar mistakes in a harsh and disrespectful tone of voice. “Has, dear mother not have!” exclaimed the public school boy, with an impatient fastidiousness that was almost harsh. (p 47) Randolph does not respect his own mother, he is in control of her. This makes us feel very Sympathetic for Sophy. She does not seem to have friends. This may be because of her poor background and the fact that she is a maid(p 47). Randolph not only disrespected her, he also controlled choosing whom she would marry. She had no choice of her own. She wanted to marry a man called Sam who is a middle class man. The thought of telling Randolph about this seemed impossible to her(54) “I am ashamed of you! it will ruin me!”(55) Randolph is ashamed of his mother for wanting to marry a middle class man. He wants his mother to marry a rich man who she does not love. This shows that Randolph really does not care about his mother’s feelings at all. Randolph is just being extremely selfish and careless. He wants to make sure that his mother does not make him look bad(55). He does not bother to try understand Sophy’s point of view. Sophy has no control over her own life, she does not feel love from anybody else. Nobody respects her and she is not allowed to marry the one man that she loves, Sam. This is how hardy makes us feel sympathy for Sophy.

How does the author make us sympathise with the How could you improve mother? this response? • The short story “The Son’s Veto” is a story written by Thomas Hardy, is about a young woman, named Sophy, she is the wife of a vicar who died short before the beginning of the story. Her son, Randolph, was raised in some kind of aristocratic environment, and ended up hating “miserable” persons such as his mother, raised in some kind of farmer family, way less as stylish as the way her sons is. • The author makes us sympathize with the mother emphasizing the fact she is so unlucky and always gets into some tricky situation, as if her fate is to be a miserable life. Among these situation, there is the son’s hatred toward his mother, whenever she spend some time with him, he just makes her feel miserable though she is innocent; she just did not get the appropriate teaching from her farmer parents, talking in some kind of slanguage. Yet, she still managed to be the vicar’s wife, therefore, gets her to learn the appropriate tasks life gives her in a more noble way, however it is a fastidious task to reach because she somewhat have to “relearn” life all over again, but in another way. This makes me sympathize with her, because she is brave to attempt to this even with her handicap. Unfortunately, the death of her husband, the vicar, brings her back down to what she was. what is just odious about the son’s reaction the way he so ungratefully act toward his mother, who gave everything to him and yet act like spoiled child, perhaps because everything has been given to him indeed…. With this reason, it looks like it is the place he grew in and the people he met that spoiled him, too. However the desolating part in all of this is that the son takes in what it has been given to him, by his mother, and does not yield anything of the sort back to her. It is only at the end of the story that she discovers the gravity of the relation between her and her son. • Now Sam, the gardener, that fell in love with Sophy, does everything he can to gain Sophy’s love, almost in vain, but as persistent as he is, he will not drop his will to get her love. In the story, he will attempt every occasion to make a move on her: • On page 52 of the story, Sam managed to get her sad at the end of the conversation, because he reminded her of the time she lived with her defunct husband. It seemed like Sam, did this on purpose, so that she reasons herself to change her idea. However, he did not get the wanted effect and actually got the opposite one. Luckily for him, he did not get her to dislike him and, in fact, at the end of the story, she even thought about marrying him • Summarizing the story, the son is bringing her grief and Sam makes Sophy have divided thoughts because she cannot get a clear idea on whether she should remain widow or that she should marry him, which she decides to do at the end of the story.

How does the author make us sympathise with the mother? • Choose a point you would make and write a paragraph explaining it.