Guilt and Blame Quotes in She's Come Undone

Maybe Dolores subconsciously learns her way of accepting blame for everything (especially men's actions) from her mother, who here is crying and apologizing after her own husband lashes out at her.

Dolores blames her mother, and solely her mother, for her parents' divorce, seeming to forget that her dad was an abusive philanderer who holds more than his fair share of the blame.

Dolores can't believe that Grandma didn't cry when Uncle Eddie died. She sees her as a cold, unfeeling woman, and her lack of emotion is probably partly to blame for Ma's difficulty in dealing with her own feelings.