All the Years of Her Life

by Alex Knaggs

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The relationship between a mother and a son can change over time. As Marly

Callaghan in the story “All the years of her life” portrays how Alfred matures and regrets his actions.

The story takes place in the drug store and at Alfred’s home. Alfred is a young man that often gets in trouble. He has two brothers and a sister who are married and left home while he still lives with his parents. He has been working at the drug store for six moths. He is immature and has a hard time holding a job. Alfred’s mother is a caring woman who wants all the best for her son. She always comes to help Alfred and protect. Sam Carr is a little grey haired man that owns the drug store.The is intelligent man, who can’t be fooled and has noticed that Alfred is stealing from the drug store. He is patient and does not call the police before he mets his mother .

The relationship between the mother and the son before the incident is not the best. His mother is protective and concerned while Alfred is immature and inconsiderate. After he got in trouble for stealing at the drug store even tough he sees his mother as unpredictable and overly dramatic deep down he wanted his mother come and rescue him to avoid being arrested “Alfred knew how his mother will come rushing in: she would rush with her eyes blazing, or maybe she would be crying, and she would push him away when he would try to talk to her, and make him feel dreadful contempt; yet he longed that she might come before Mr. Carr saw a cop on the beat passing the door”.To his surprise his mother reaction was very different from the one that he expected, she was calm full with confidence. “Yet as soon as she saw him she did not look as Alfred though: she smiled, her blue eyes never wavered, and with a calmness and dignity that made them forget that her clothes seemed to have been thrown on her’’.

After the incident when Alfred saw his mother’s look on her face he realised that he was wrong. After watching his mother sitting alone in the kitchen alone and upset. At that moment he realised that he didn’t understood his mother