Kay’s mother was a pragmatic, kind, and conservative woman whose steadiness balanced out her husband (Kay’s father) and his mercurial and volatile moods. Thoughtful and supportive—even when the young Kay rebelled against her strict, mannered, military upbringing—Kay’s mother would later come to stay by Kay’s side through the worst of her depression in the wake of her daughter’s suicide attempt.
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Kay’s Mother Character Timeline in An Unquiet Mind
The timeline below shows where the character Kay’s Mother appears in An Unquiet Mind. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 1: Into the Sun
...was given to excess, yet “there was a contagious magic to his expansiveness,” she writes. Kay’s mother described her husband as a kind of “Pied Piper”—and the description is apt for a...
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Kay’s mother , meanwhile, was more pragmatic—she always wanted to be kind and fair. A conservative and...
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Chapter 5: The Charnel House
...led her down the “cold and colder and colder still” road “from suicide to life.” Kay’s mother , too, stayed with her for a long while and helped her readjust to life...
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