Sylvia seems to be an outgoing, social, friendly person, but behind that she is seen in the novel as being a bad mom. Sonny proclaims in the beginning of the novel that his mom was hardly ever around. Sonny states, "It was that my mom, if she wasn't at her job, was out on dates and whateve. And sometimes she'd get in so late I wouldn't be awake"(pg. 5). You would think that if you were a mother you would try and spend as much time with your child as possible, but not Sylivia, she seems to be more occupied by herself. Sylvia also seems to care more about her apperance as well. She always has nice clothes, pretty hair, and prefume. Sonny explains this when he says, "My mom was dressed too pretty to take serious, shampoo in her hair and body lotion smell, and she was trying to hard to sound happy. Nobody'd believe her except her."(pg.17)Sylvia also appears to be a bad housewife too. In one scene Sonny explains how he mom can't cook when he says, "He (Cloyd) said, ' I love to eat them tacos, and now i even got myself married to a pretty mexican gal, he said that. Really. The dude who my mom married. She had some rice on the stove, and something was going wrong there, because her face was close to the burner, watching it boil through the glass cover. I knew something was more messed up when Cloyd complimented her on her chili salsa. He might as well have complimented her on the tortilla chips, because she bought them at the store too."(pg.51). In this scene you can clearly see how Sylvia does not fit in quite well with the whole housewife stereotype.
Sylvia seems to be a stay at home mom, who doesn't work and goes out shopping a lot, while Sonny is left to fend for himself. So far in the novel it seems to be that Sylvia is a bad mom and is very selfish. Who knows though, maybe Sylvia will change during the novel and become a better mom and a better cook.
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