Thread:LucidPigeons/@comment-27818776-20151115220005/@comment-27818776-20151115234537

Well, to be honest, she's pretty much the same. The only real difference in the novel is that she forces Meg to wear a dress, and then lectures her about how women were cursed because of Eve, and she then tortures her by trying to burn her midsection with the cigarettes.

What I can say without a doubt is that she doesn't love her children. In fact, she hates them, or at least she resents them for being forced to take care of them, because her husband left her. She even tells Meg that she should count herself lucky, because she wouldn't have kids to weigh her down. David does even state at one point that she most certainly would kill them and her own children, and she wouldn't feel guilty for it, at least not until later.