What's amazing is that Lavin manages to evoke a sense of pity for this woman, making the ending moving and a bit teary as mother and daughter come to a sort of uneasy truce at the final curtain.
Before, I would've made fun of them." A thickset man whose forearms are mapped with dark tattoos, Price still gets teary as he recalls the summer night he relived his life in an instant while waiting for a corpsman to reach him.
It's become a code in some respects to make people teary (tearful).