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In *Ice-Candy Man* by Bapsi Sidhwa, the character of Mother, as seen through the eyes of Lenny, is a complex embodiment of maternal affection, social privilege, and gendered power dynamics. The quoted line, “Mother’s motherliness has a universal reach, and like her involuntary female magnetism, it cannot be controlled...I resent this largesse,” captures Lenny’s ambivalence towards her mother’s expansive nurturing tendencies and the emotional repercussions it evokes within her. Mother is portrayed as an influential Parsi woman in Lahore, endowed with both social mobility and personal authority within her domestic and communal spheres. She is not merely a _______ ____ ________ ________ ____ _______.
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