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Reflect on why you think the main character in "The White Umbrella" throws away her hard won prize.

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At first, she was upset. She had seen how Eugenie Roberts’s mother acted to her child and how she had treated them, with kindness and utmost interest. She was jealous because her mother had been working all of the time. After her mother came to pick them up, she told her mother she wanted her to quit her job, she didn't want her to work, she wanted to feel like every kid and have her mother there with her to let her know she loved her. And then she had gotten into an accident, in her anger, her mother tilted her head back and closed her eyes, waiting for the yelling people to approach her car. But she thought her mother was dead, she screamed at her mother to open her eyes, before her mother told her to be quiet because people were already going to yell at her and she couldn't take any more yelling. She threw her umbrella in the sewer. Deciding to never be that angry with her mother, for working again.

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Answer: The reason why the narrator throw the umbrella down the sewer after the car accident is that the umbrella symbolized the rejection of her mother The narrator feel ashamed about her working mother who cannot afford her the standard of living like she's seen in her friends. in the end, she feel ashamed of this and the umbrella remind her of her shameful thought about her mother

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