In this article, we’ve been investigating the image of the mother in the novel “The Gathering” in more details, presented by the Irish writer Anne Enright. The aim of this article is to consider ways of representing this image in a work of art, as well as the ways to disclose the author’s position in national literature. Enright reinterprets and creates an “new” image of the mother in national literature, which is characteristic of public consciousness and differs from the image of the “traditional” mother, associated with the image of the Blessed Virgin Mary.