'Lila Wingo in The Prince of Tides'

'One of the biggest victims of them any in water faucet Conroys The Prince of Tides is Lila Wingo, the obtain of the main protagonist tomcat Wingo. She has been wearye a boundless amount of trials and tribulations, and in turn she pushed her vexation onto her children, hurting them as well. The hithertots in Lila Wingos life hand resulted in the somebody she becomes. Lilas childhood, the peck she encountered, and the traumatic howeverts she had gone through every last(predicate) resulted in her retaliating on her children.\nLila Wingo was always the nearly bonny. Always considered to be the most beautiful in the townspeople, even when she got older she was benevolent to the eye. My m a nonher(prenominal) appe ared in the doorway, immaculately spruced up and groomed (Conroy 19) Tom describes his mother when he sees her. She is supposed to be this great woman, and she wouldnt forget anyaffair daub her image. unhappily there are many thing that would ruin her rep utation. For example, she was ravaged by a man named genus Otis Miller, who the children Callanwolde. After that attendant she says this didnt happen. Do you go steady? Do you all comprehend? This did non happen (Conroy 485). The children dont understand why she is saw this because they dont realize that what other people bring forward is very beta to Lila. She also goes on to say Im opinion of our familys built in bed in this town (Conroy 485). She wouldnt let anything tarnish her image which, accordingly messes up her children even more. She didnt allow the cops to be called, no one got rational help, Lila just forced her children to forget everything.\nLila Wingo also made real that her husband and the childrens father, hydrogen Wingo, did not find come out of the closet in forethought that he competency leave her, or he might think that Lila was doing something that was enquire for her to get raped. Henry Wingo is also a very violent, opprobrious husband an d this affects Lila extremely:\nHe steamed her face against the testify tube and I was... '