When Wright first sees him mother in such a pitiful condition, he is scared for her survival. He even forces his relatives to let him go to the hospital where the surgery to save her life will happen. But after her immediate survival, his attitude begins to change.
After she gets over a bout of paralysis, Wright’s mother tells him to just kill her. After that he shuts off feelings for his mother because he can no longer deal with her suffering.
But more importantly, Wright realizes something about himself. He decides that he won’t just sit back and live with the miserable life that has been dealt to him. Instead he is going to try and wring a meaning from what appears to be meaningless suffering. His entire life before his mother had her strokes was on disappointment after another. Constant hunger, both literal and metaphorical, has been all he’s even known, and he finally decides that the only way he can have a life is to try and make sense of the meaningless trudge of a life.
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