NOW VOYAGER: Mother’s Cruel Voice & Settling for Crumbs

A mother’s cruelty is severe childhood trauma. It ruins your self-esteem. Creates a rage that turns into self-hate, seething inside until it drives you almost crazy. That’s Charlotte Vale in Irving Rapper’s 1942 Now, Voyager. Trapped. Lonely. Sad. Because she believes she is an “ugly duckling,” just as her mother calls her. That’s a horrible feeling. You can’t trust love. You lose hope …