The Diviners: Mother-Daughter Relationships

"My Hope Is Constant In Thee" (352-353)
What gives a mother greater hopes than her offspring? To see in her child the hopes and dreams of the future while her own begin to fade with her age. Prin Logan, christened Princess, lost her only child but adopted the orphan Morag Gunn, who, as a grown woman, gave birth to Pique. In this essay I will focus on the relationship between Morag and Prin and the effects it had on the former throughout her life - especially when it comes to her relationship with her daughter, Pique.
The first time Morag meets Prin, there is no identification. She is immediately turned down by Prin's appearance: "She is so fat - can she be a person?"(24). Instead of seeing in Prin a comforter, a supplement mother, a grown up person, she sees a large woman, with whom she has difficulties connecting. She seems to be in a state of shock for some time because the first year with Prin and Christie, her "memories do not exist at all." (25)
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