The Secret Garden Mr. and Mrs. Craven
Mr. Craven Mr. Archibald Craven, Mary`s uncle, the master of Misselthwaite Manor. He had a wife, but she died ten years ago and since that Mr. Craven doesn’t like to spend time in the house because everything there carries it back. He even doesn’t want to see his son, because his eyes remind him his wife. He is a man who suffers from a crooked spine and has general ill health. He is in a crushing depression since the death of his wife.
Mrs. Craven Archibald`s beautiful, deceased wife. She appears in both flashback and as she haunts Archibald and other characters. Though she still loves him, she understands that he must learn to let her go and move on. Her spirit is associated with both roses and the secret garden. Her portrait hangs in her son's room beneath a rose-colored curtain, and she is described by all who knew her as the gentlest, sweetest, and most beautiful of women. She is like an ideal.
Archibald and Lily loved each other very much. When she was alive, they made a beautiful garden. They planted there a lot of flowers and bushes and trees. Most of all Lily loved roses, so there were many roses in the garden. These roses were remained even by the moment , when Mary got into the garden, though it was closed for 10 years. As Mr. Craven loved Lily very much, he closed the garden, because it reminded him his wife, as her death was provoked by falling from the swing in their garden.
Mr. Craven thinks, that the garden has perished and nobody knows about it. But Mary and Dickon have found it and changed. Also, there is a man, Ben Wetherstaff, Archibald`s gardener, who feels it the duty to look after the garden. Finally Mr. Craven gets into the garden and he is surprised by its beauty. And also there he finds his son, Colin, and realizes, that he is very important to him.
The End.