Throughout the last pages of the book, Felicia has changed a lot. She has changed a lot for bad.She is no longer smiling or enjoying life.She just drinks and drinks to stop living. Even her son doesn't want to follow her example because she's been, for years drinking laudanum. I guess an unhappy marriage, plus years of verbal abuse, and indifference can turn anybody into a compulsive drinker. I wonder...well I don't wonder. I know this for sure. Drinking is not the cause of her misfortunes and evilness. It is only the consequence of a series of unfortunate events in her tragic life.
I'm glad that you chose her character to focus on. I didn't pay much attention to her, though she becomes more dangerous as the book goes on. She must have had an awful existence -- and alcohol was the only way to numb her pain. Life can be too cruel sometimes, and maybe Felicia never really had a chance to be a good mother. Tragic.
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