Little Doubting Thomas Scene 13

The common dislike of the two women for each other created constant tension within his family. Although he loved his wife, he had difficulty trusting her completely for that reason alone. In Thomas’s viewpoint, Mary should have made the effort to accept his mother’s human foibles and have tried to get along with her. The fact that she didn’t make an attempt to integrate herself in his “family” gave him moral trepidations about their continued relationship as man and wife. Frankly, he doubted his wife’s ability to get along with people, much less his mother. In some strange way, Thomas’s doubts had poisoned his marriage at its inception. It was only after the wedding ceremony that he realized that there was a problem between the two of them. Unfortunately, he had not been able to resolve it until the day of his mother’s birthday party.