She wants to fly and play with mermaids and say “funny things to the stars.” And when she has grown into the mother she was always becoming, the other Wendy wants desperately for the “woman” whom she now lives inside to “let go” of her. Darling’s mouth, the kiss she “could never get,” though Peter takes it without trying. But we also catch glimpses of a very different Wendy, hiding awkwardly behind the “motherly person.” This other Wendy tries over and over for the ‘ kiss’ in the corner of Mrs. When the lost boys tell her that they need “a nice motherly person,” Wendy replies happily, “I feel that is exactly what I am”: she is clearly delighted to complete this symmetry, to be no more and no less. From an early age, Wendy seems naturally disposed to care for others. The eldest Darling child, a “tidy,” practical girl with a soft spot in her heart for orphaned or abandoned creatures.
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