Candy Borowski (Night in the Woods)
Patience. If there was one virtue that you could use to describe Candy Borowski, it would undoubtedly be patience. As mother to Mae Borowski, the infamously unruly protagonist of Night in the Woods, it is truly a miracle that it’s a virtue she has managed to retain.
Where most parents would have regressed into fits of raging fury, Mrs. Borowski remains calm and collected. She also knows her daughter’s heart inside out, using her motherly instincts to play Mae like a fiddle, masterfully guiding her to the right answer rather than shoving it down her throat.
While some might mistake her soft and timid nature as weakness, that couldn’t be further from the truth. Acting on your anger is easy.
But setting it aside so that you can reach past your inexplicably withdrawn daughter’s emotional armor? Now that’s a skill that not many of us can claim to have mastered.
