Beauvoir argues that motherhood places limits on women; meaning that a woman's self-interest and independence are stripped from a woman when she becomes a mother and thus being a mother is put on the forefront. Therefore, women are crushed and left with nothing when separated from their children. Could this be the distance seen between Kym and Rachel's mother? That because of the loss of her child she felt as if she had failed as a mother and therefore could not provide her other two children with the necessary love and affection because she had already failed in her role as a mother (by society's standards)? Which makes Kym's comparison with Mother Teresa, the perfect woman/mother, significant. She knows that even if she overcame her addictions and became a mother, it wouldn't matter simply because (like her mother) she has already failed by society's standards. This shows that Kym's attention seeking is not a desire to manipulate the people around her but instead is a constant longing for her mother's love/her family's acceptance and consequently her actions/Kym's tantrums they were an attempt to bring his family closer to her. her so that she would feel their love and not feel like they were constantly blaming her for her brother's death. When the details of his brother's death are revealed it's impossible not to sympathize with his fears of abandonment. These are the feelings he is addressing?