- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
Once Maddy returns home to recover under Mom’s care, Mom asks why Maddy went to Hawaii behind her back, which resulted in Maddy getting seriously ill. In framing Maddy’s actions as hurtful both to herself and to Mom, Mom challenges Maddy’s newfound ability to make decisions for herself. Especially when Mom asks why Maddy did this to her, it suggests that Mom doesn’t necessarily view Maddy as in control of her own life. Rather, Maddy’s existence and continued health is for Mom’s benefit, possibly more than Maddy’s benefit. In this way, the novel again exposes the unhealthy dynamic at…