Frances’ father was distraught by the loss of his eldest daughter and because of this; he turned into a depressed and broken man which then forced Frances to dedicate herself to raising her niece, Lily. Ann-Marie MacDonald uses Frances to portray the mother figure for Lily by developing events using this role in order to contribute to the search of Frances’ identity. Although Frances did not actually give birth to this child, she develops the maternal instincts that are needed to appropriately raise a young girl. Since Frances was neglected and ill-treated as a youngster, she sought to provide Lily with everything she unfortunately never received from either of her parents. The only appropriate method would be to get Lily as far away from her family as feasible. As a result, Frances gave up on herself and made it her personal goal to get Lily off of the island.

“But what could be worse than this outrageous hilarity at her mothers funeral which comes two days after her sisters funeral which came two days after all the baptis

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