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- When Anne reached puberty, the relationship between mother and daughter became difficult; downright bad, according to Anne's diary entries. Otto Frank later said in an interview, that Edith suffered more from this than Anne did and that it concerned him that his wife and Anne were not on good terms with each other.
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How Anne thought about her mother emerges mainly in her diary entries and therefore provides a subjective picture. Although there was a lot of friction between mother and daughter, Edith does not always come off badly and sometiimes Anne also expressed admiration.
Anne rarely comments on her mother’s positive traits. Later in her diary, however, Anne attempts to look at her mother’s life as a wife and mother from a more objective viewpoint. As Anne gets older and gains a clearer perspective, she begins to regret her quick, petty judgments of her mother.
Edith cries and shouts that she cannot make Anne love her, and Anne, for the first time, feels bad about her treatment toward her mother. Even though Anne thinks that Edith’s harsh words toward her mean Edith does not love her, readers see the pain Anne causes in Edith by rejecting her.
The relationship between Anne and her mother in The Diary of a Young Girl is difficult. Anne feels that Edith favors Margot, Anne's sister, over her and does not understand her.
Jan 16, 2022 · Edith’s daughter Anne frequently wrote in her diary of her difficult rel ationship with her mother, and of her ambivalence towards her. On 7 November 1942, she described her “contempt” for her mother and her inability to “confront her with her carelessness, her sarcasm and her hard-heartedness,” before concluding, “She’s not a ...
There were certainly a few reasons for the discord and tension between Anne and her mother. For one, Anne hated the long "dreadful sermons" her mother (Edith) subjected her to whenever she...
After Anne's family moves into hiding in the secret annex in 1942, the relationship between mother and daughter becomes so strained that they are constantly caught up in arguments and small quarrels. Thirteen-year-old Anne feels alienated from her mother after just one week in hiding.
