Bernadette is the outsider among these pretentious, snobby, Mercedes, Seattle folk. Better know as the Galer Street School gnats. She's the mother of Bee, a surpassing excellence student, and wife to Elgie, a Microsoft-guru with bad judgement. An architect turned into a stay at home mom, Bernadette's sole duty has been to care for Bee and raise her as best she could.
Elgie says Bernadette insists on dressing fashionable. I picture Bernadette as a modern Rosie the Riveter. She does what she wants because there are no boundaries she cannot break. No gnat can put her down, and she's committed to everything she does. Bernadette had a series of miscarriages and she had promised God that she would never build again if he would save Bree's life. She was an artist that needed to build, but a mother-daughter's relationship can withstand all things.
The song I feel is most representative of Bernadette is I Don't Care by Fall Out Boy. She never paid much attention to anyone outside her family and did not care that she was viewed as odd. No one - not even Audrey Griffin - could make Bernadette not be the spontaneous and elaborate gal she is. Everyone talked, so why not just let them. Just to prove her point, she had a giant sign made just for Audrey. A woman that cares for getting her point across.
"bur-nuh-det : gnats, agoraphobia, spontaneous" - this is perfect.
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