She is a patient and hardworking housewife who live a hard life. She has to support her brother.
Characteristics
Content with her status in life.
Forgiving and compassionate
Patient
Low expectations
Textual Evidence
Mrs Beck is satisfied with her status, she said to Lucy that “We are jumble sailors on the rough sea of life.” Thus she accepts her fate and shows no actions or thoughts of wanting more than what she has in life.
She had an argument/quarrel with Uncle Bert and had turned him out once. Six weeks later, she asked him to return as she sympathize him. She said he looks so lonely, so lost, living all by himself in a horrid little room with the worn lino and the curtains all shrunk.
Lucy could not help wishing her mother would sometimes lose her temper, shout, scream, throw saucepans at the spinning, grinning head of Uncle Bert.
She does not expect Lucy to get a job as she was not confident in Lucy’s ability.