"She had on a half-smile, the sort a mother might have in an ordinary family, weighing things up while the children jumped and screamed around her asking her to say, yes, they could do whatever." pg 159
This quote just about sums up Ruth's mood in chapter fourteen. Basically, she is not happy with the current situation, but she doesn't exactly show it. The analogy ^ accurately conveys the situation to us. Ruth gives the impression to Chrissie, Rodney, Kathy, and Tommy that the situation is fine, but deep down a thousand thoughts are running through her mind--like a mother caught in between her thoughts and her children nagging at her to allow them to play something.
In reality, after discovering her possible is anything but similar to her, she feels foolishly mistaken. Since things turned out opposite of what she expected, she got mad and started talking 'rubbish.' She claimed that they were all just "modelled from trash." I think that reasoning may be a bit extreme. I don't think they would model organ donators out of complete rubbish--Just saying. Well, mainly this chapter reveals more about Ruth's character. I think she acts this way because she is honestly just bitter about her life. Being an organ donator seems to be the last thing she wants to do with her life.
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