Building The Character In Robert Frost's The Summer Of May

Imagine living in a world where nothing went your way, everything would always come tumbling down no matter what you do, well in the book The Summer Of May, the author includes challenges that will help build the character into a stronger person. First of all, May has to constantly ask herself the question, if she will ever be the perfect daughter, furthermore she struggles to be the daughter that everyone wants her to be. She has juggle with keeping up her summer school grades, an ill grandma, and very mean dad that she always fighting with. In this part of the book May’s grandma is mad at her for the first time. Here May’s grandma explains. “I know you had a fight gram said. I heard you like always, I shuffled in my seat a little. How could you say something like that to your own father? Now gram was yelling at me”(212). This shows that May has a lot of pressure on her shoulders, because not only was her dad mad at her but now her grandma isn’t even on her side. Those are also her only

In this part of the book the grandma is upset, and is expressing her feelings to May. The narrator explains “I 'm her mother May i should of been there for her, and sometimes I really wonder if i ever will get better”(244). This shows that even though her daughter died a few years ago she still struggling with depression, and is now worried that she will never get better. She also always needs someone to help her and to lean on, because she 's not very independent. May’s grandma has to ask herself this because she wants to be happy, but before she can do that she needs to get over her depression. Later in the book she struggles to get over it but eventually she does. This changes everything, and helps build a better relationship with everyone in her