character sketch of Edith Frank
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ANNE’S MOTHER
Anne’s mother Edith Hollander Frank was a housewife whose family came from Aachen , a town on Germany’s western border , near Belgium. Like her husband , she came from the comfortable middle classes and was accustomed to a life of relative ease , with most of the work in the house being done by servants. Her husband was eleven years older than she was , being thirty-six to her twenty-five when they were married in 1925.
In the ‘Secret Annexe’, Mrs. Frank was obliged to perform various tasks which she had not formerly been accustomed to doing. This obviously was not easy for her possibly much of the bad feeling between Anne and her mother may have been due to this and the effect that the cramped living conditions had on everyone’s nerves.
Anne has very little sympathy for her mother during their tumultuous years in the annexe but later in her diary , however , Anne attempts to look at her mother’s life as a wife and mother from a more objective viewpoint. Despite her new perspective , Anne continues to feel estranged from her sentimental , critical mother and irrevocably deems her unfit. In terms of her mothering skills , she is somewhat of a . disappointment to Anne , who would prefer her to be more affectionate and accepting a peacemaker , she is the voice of reason during adult fights in the annexe.
After her arrest , Mrs. Frank was taken with her family to Gestapo headquarters in Amsterdam and the Westerbork reception camp. There, according to an eyewitness , she was very quiet. Like other members of the group , Mrs. Frank was included in the last shipment of the people to be sent to Auschwitz , she was still with Anne and Margot, though separated from Mr. Frank.
The events which Mrs. Frank had been through , the hunger , the privation , had unhinged her mind and she refused to eat. She was forty-five years old when she died in her bed before the SS guards fled from the camp. Because the diary consists of only Anne’s thoughts and perspectives, we are never able to gain much insight into Mrs. Frank’s own personal thoughts or feelings.
Anne had very little sympathy for her mother Edith,and she had a few kind words to say about her,particularly in earlier entries.
Mrs Frank was unhappy in confining,cramped quarters of the annex , as she faced the scarcity of basic necessities. She proved that she was not a particularly wise woman. Mrs Frank was obviously partial to Margot and was upset about Anne's rejection.