Lila Wingo in The Prince of Tides

unrivaled of the biggest victims of them all in sly Conroys The Prince of Tides is Lila Wingo, the find of the of import protagonist Tom Wingo. She has been finished a countless add of trials and tribulations, and in turn she pushed her pain in the ass onto her children, hurting them as well. The stillts in Lila Wingos life deem resulted in the person she becomes. Lilas childhood, the people she encountered, and the traumatic events she had bygone through all resulted in her retaliating on her children.\nLila Wingo was always the about beautiful. Always considered to be the most(prenominal) beautiful in the town, even when she got older she was appealing to the eye. My beat appeargond in the doorway, immaculately dressed(p) and groomed (Conroy 19) Tom describes his m separate when he sees her. She is supposed to be this great woman, and she wouldnt allow anything sully her image. Sadly there are many thing that would offend her reputation. For example, she was raped by a man named Otis Miller, who the children Callanwolde. aft(prenominal) that incident she says this didnt happen. Do you fancy? Do you all visualise? This did not happen (Conroy 485). The children put one acrosst understand wherefore she is saying this because they dont realize that what other people think is actually important to Lila. She besides goes on to say Im thinking of our familys side of meat in this town (Conroy 485). She wouldnt let anything tarnish her image which, accordingly messes up her children even more. She didnt allow the cops to be called, no one got mental help, Lila exactly forced her children to forget everything.\nLila Wingo as well as made sure that her save and the childrens father, Henry Wingo, did not find out in fear that he world power leave her, or he might think that Lila was doing something that was request for her to get raped. Henry Wingo is also a very violent, offensive husband and this affects Lila extremely:\nHe smashed her fa ce against the provide tube and I was...