be like with out her mother. Frances A. Nadeau, who wrote an article on the mother- daughter relationship, said“Understanding [this] relationship is critical to young adult girls because daughters bond with their mothers in a complex, interdependent association that often inhibits a daughter from establishing her own identity.” Different people might describe this relationship in different ways but one common theme they have is that the daughter cannot do any thing without the mother and she also has her mothers’ image. In the novel, Annie and her mother were almost the same. They wore dresses cut from the same cloth; they went shopping together; and they even took bath together. She did many things with her mother and even wears the same cloth. Annie was like a little mirror of her mother. As the relationship gets to different stage in life it changes. For instance, the relationship you have with your mother when you are a child is different from the one you have during adolescence and it’s also different when you are a mother yourself. But the most difficult stage is during adolescence. Adolescence is a difficult stage for both the mothers and daughters. Recent studies show that “adolescence [is] regarded as a time of “storm and stress”, and solely attributed to the momentous physical and psychological changes that take place” (Marisela, Laura).Adolescence is a period in which the daughter goes through many physical and emotional changes. It is an interesting but also painful stage for the daughter. When the daughter is between the age twelve and thirteen the daughter might want to be independent orsometimes the mother tells the daughter it is time for her to find her own way of life. In the novel, Annie’s mother told her when it was time for her to become independent. Making this decision is very hard for the daughter because she didn’t know w...