The Mother - Somerset Maugham

The Mother' is a short story by William Somerset Maugham. It is a story about very possessive and jealous mother who killed her son's fiance because she couldn't bear anyone with her son.

Story opens with quarrel in tenement. New lodger La Cachirra was violently quarreling with the porter. Everybody was curiously watching and nobody know who the women is. It was said that she had spent seven years in prison and come out just one month before.

One day young boy comes asking for La Cachirra. Rosalia, one of the tenant gives address to him. He was her son Currito. She was so passionate for her son. When she noticed affection between his son and rosalia, she begun to hate rosalia very much.

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