Margaret is Tom Weylin’s wife and Rufus’s mother. She is an emotional and nervous woman who alleviates her apathy and sense of pointlessness by making the existing of her house servants tragic. Margaret hates Dana because of Dana’s higher education and assurance. Her matter of suitableness and persistence on acting like a lady veil an ingrained, encouraged by both her husband’s and her son’s insensitive cure of her and the comments that she derived from a white-trash household. In her old age, Margaret softens when she turns into absorbed to laudanum.
Margaret Weylin in the Essays
Author: Craig Brown