The most famous example of a possessive mother is Gertrude Morel in D.H.Lawrence's "Sons & Lovers". Disappointed in her husband's & eldest son's love, she hung onto Paul, her artist son as the last hope.
In Thomas Hardy's heartbreaking short story, "The Son's Veto", Sophy Twycott, a servant, marries the vicar & has a son Randolph. After her husband's death, she wants to marry her former beau, Sam, a trader. But Randolph, educated to be a priest, forbids his mother to marry below his rank as a priest. She spends the rest of her life as a lonely abandoned widow.
In Agatha Christie's last novel "Sleeping Murder", Dr.Kennedy was so possessive of his step sister, Helen, that he prevented her social life, going as far as to prolong the infection of her injured foot, by dressing it himself. Finally to stop her from marrying, he kills her & kills others also, who suspect him.
In a reversal of the above story, Somerset Maugham's story "The Book Bag" tells of siblings Olive & Tim being very close with no thoughts of romantic lives. Suddenly Tim meets, falls in love, marries & brings his bride home. Though outwardly Olive takes the news calmly enough, just before the newlyweds arrive, she shoots herself dead.
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