men love her beauty That makes her easy to fool Her pride becomes her weakness This makes her a comic figure But also we feel sorry for her age The following quote shows her extreme vanity I look like an old peeled wall Thou must repair me Foible before Sir Rowland comes Here Lady Wishfort acts like a foolish lover She tries hard to look young She wants Sir Rowland to like her Easily Fooled Lady Wishfort always trusts the wrong people She believes Mrs Marwood is her true friend But Marwood secretly works against her She depends on her maid Foible He also helps Mirabell trick her When she discovers Foible s betrayal she angrily asks Have you made a passive bawd of me Even her own daughter and niece hide Mirabell s plans from her By the end she realizes everyone deceived her This makes her feel helpless and alone Her foolish trust brings her pain Role as a Mother She is the mother of Mrs Fainall But she fails in her duty as a mother She does not know about her son-in-law s plan She does not see Fainall s evil mind She also tries to control Millamant s life She wants to choose her husband But her choices are always wrong She cannot protect her family s honour She becomes a weak and helpless woman Her failure gives us pain not joy So we feel sorry for her situation Desperation for Love Lady Wishfort wants to remarry She falls for any man who flatters her She even loves Mirabell who tricks her Her need for love is sad She is old but acts like a young girl This makes her funny but also pitiful Her loneliness drives her actions She is a victim of her own desires This makes her more pathetic than comic The following quotation supports this idea Bring what you will but come alive pray come alive Here she begs Sir Rowland actually Waitwell in disguise to return quickly This shows how desperately she wants love and attention To sum up Lady Wishfort looks funny at first We laugh at her love and makeup We enjoy her silly words and acts But slowly we feel sorry for her She is old and lonely inside She wants love but gets fooled Her own daughter is in trouble She cannot help her family She becomes a victim of others plans So she gives us more pain than fun She is a sad figure not just comic