The first sentence of the novel fixed the main line of the narration. There is an obstruction at the beginning, the death of the father – a family’s main support. Therefore, the choice of the author was to propose another perspective, the supremacy of female character which acquires rather masculine features. The mother becomes authoritative thus offering another view on a woman, a quite modernist view that makes Slavici an exceptional fiction writer. Between father and mother’s laws there is a difference because the latter is considered better ones, in unexpected way, the mother has adventurous spirit and does everything that she can to give all the support her children need. The native intelligence made Mara understand that the strong characters of her children needed strict discipline. Mara became a symbol of universal Mother.