Grey’s Anatomy
InGrey ’s Anatomyseason 17 , Meredith shorten a serious character of Covid-19 and spends several episode in a coma , dreaming of seeing retiring and presentGrey ’s Anatomycharacters at the beach – except for her mother . The the great unwashed who claver her encourage her to fall on amid her Covid-19 battle , or they tell her to move along to the other side . Among her visitors , including Derek , her sis Lexie , and her honest-to-goodness friend George , she never engender a visit from her deceased mother , Ellis Grey , which seems like an odd oversight .
Out of all the characters who visit , Meredith ’s female parent Ellis Greyisn’t one of them . All the visitor Meredith has are people with whom she had a stiff , loving relationship . Meredith loved her mother , but their relationship was complicated . Ellis was a cold , rigorous person who made her life very unmanageable . When she buy the farm away in time of year 3 of Alzheimer ’s , Meredith was devastated - but the audience also saw how complex her opinion towards Ellis were . The characters who get along to visit Meredith were all people who wish about her and loved her unconditionally , while Ellis was distant to Meredith throughout her puerility .
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grow up , Meredith always wanted Ellis ' approval . Ellis was so focussed on her work , she rarely spend time with her daughter . Meredith ’s father would take her to the infirmary to visit Ellis at work , and Meredith grew up remote from her female parent . As an grownup , Meredith drop medical school in her female parent ’s shadow . When Ellis got Alzheimer ’s disease , she secernate Meredith she was foiled to see her felicitous alternatively of concenter on her vocation . No matter how distanced they were , Meredith always cared about Ellis ' opinion , and her speech hurt profoundly . Meredith has a destiny of annoyance and difficult memories attached to Ellis , which is part of the reason she did n’t see her at the beach .
Meredith’s Mother Didn’t Fit Her Own Perfect After-Life
Meredith spendsGrey ’s Anatomyseason 17torn between life and death . The lineament who call her give her unlike reasons to keep on last : Derek tells her to hang on because their kid require her , and George encourages her to keep doing upright thing for other mass . Ellis ’ coming into court might have made Meredith come out of her comatoseness rather , ironically just because she would not have had an worked up motive . Ellis was devoted to medicine and her vocation , and she would have simply severalise Meredith not to run off all she has lick for . Rather than encourage her girl to come back to life to be happy , or to spend time with her kin and friend , she would have tell Meredith to get back to study .
Despite everything Meredith has been through with Ellis , she loves her mother and call up her as the splendid charwoman she was . TheGrey ’s Anatomycharacters who visited Meredith on the beachwere people she did n’t have closure with . She already said goodbye to her mother in a vision when she excrete , and does n’t have anything she needs to say to her . The other characters who chitchat Meredith on the beach , like Derek , George , Lexie , and Mark , were all taken from Meredith unexpectedly with no hazard to say goodby . Meredith knew about her mother ’s unwellness and was by her side when she passed . Ellis did n’t need to come to the beach because Meredith already enunciate goodbye to her earlier onGrey ’s Anatomy .
