Like a Kid

For the first part of what I read from Seize the Day by Saul Bellow, I noticed how the relationship between Wilhelm and his father shows an unusually strong resemblence to that between my mother and grandmother. "Greatly hurt, Wilhelm struggled however to be fair...Dad is no longer the same person, he reflected...it's time I stopped feeling like a kid toward him, like a small son." (pgs. 8-9). My mother and my grandmother have never really gotten along. For a long time, the bond between them has been weak, and still, my mother is all my grandmother has left. I have often witnessed the irrationality with which my grandmother treats my mother, often blaming her for things she has no power over whatsoever. Despite this, like Wilhelm, my mother does the best she can to be fair to my grandmother. In some way, I believe she still wants to feel like a little girl. She wants the tenderness and love my grandmother never really gave her, she never got the chance to feel "like a kid toward" her.