The best reaction is Repression

At first Wright's reaction to his mother's illness and subsequent paralysis was highly phasing. He was afraid to see her in her sickly condition, and feared that she would take a turn for the worse and he would be potentially without her. However, as things progressed and his mother eventually lapses into a purely bedridden state, he becomes "numb" and adjusted to the fact that he can't let the one concept of his mother's negative state affect his entire life. Therefore, he becomes less reactive to the things his mother would say and do; things that no mother should ever ask of her son.