Lynette Scavo
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Lynette Scavo is the name of a fictional character on the ABC television series Desperate Housewives. The character is played by actress Felicity Huffman.
History
A brilliant career woman, Lynette is also the harried mother of three unruly boys and an infant girl: twins Preston and Porter, Parker, and Penny. After each of her three births, Lynette has insisted to Tom that this will be the last child, especially considering that she had been reluctant to have children in the first place. This, and the fact that she refuses to physically discipline her sons, stems from her own abusive childhood rather than her career ambitions. Her unwillingness to physically discipline her children, however, is seen by many to be the cause of their increasingly uncontrollable behavior. Another mark of her abusive childhood is her reluctance to engage in confrontations; she has proven quite strong-willed when she does engage, but she refrains from doing so most of the time.After the birth of the twins, Lynette left her job at an advertising agency to become a housewife. As more children came along, she resented this direction of her life, despite loving her children deeply, because she had been good at her job and Tom was often oblivious to her troubles with the children. When Tom's former girlfriend, Annabel Foster, came to work at his firm, however, Lynette sabotaged a promotion he was trying for which would have led to long hours in the office with the woman. Tom later quit his job and encouraged Lynette to go to work, determined to be a stay-at-home dad.
Tom's horrifying housekeeping skills led to a serious confrontation between he and Lynette, which culminated in Lynette buying a rat and letting it loose in the house to prove a point. Tom killed it, causing Lynette serious guilt, but he immediately changed his wasy and kept the house from being a pig sty.
Eventually, however, Tom decides that he wants to return to work as well, and gets a job at the ad agency where Lynette has just become a vice-president. This prompts Lynette to get daycare facilities established at the office, where the children can be cared for when they are not under the supervision of Mrs. McKlusky. Tom and Lynette have some predictable scuffles, but things seem to run smoothly until Lynette writes some e-mails to her boss, Ed's wife in an attempt to save her Ed's marriage. Ed's wife, however, doesn't believe that her husband wrote the e-mails and demands that the author be fired. Unwilling to sacrifice Lynette, Ed intends to find a reason to fire Tom; he gets it when he confronts Tom about questionable expenses during Atlantic City trips and Tom punches him.
Later, Lynette attempts to get Tom's job back for him, and she is shown the expenses. Leaving the children with Mrs. McKlusky, Lynette goes to Atlantic City to trail Tom and find out conclusively if he is having an affair. Upon seeing him at another woman's home, having what appears to be an intimate evening, Lynette returns to Fairview and takes the children to a hotel. While the children vacation, blissfully unaware, Lynette agonizes over leaving Tom; finally, she decides to take the children and live with her mother. Upon explaining this to the boys, they seem unaffected by the news, but on the day they are checking out, the boys become agitated and Preston leaps from the balcony with the intention of diving into the swimming pool below. A horrified Lynette takes him to the hospital and calls Tom, informing him that his son has broken his arm.
Upon talking with Tom at the hospital, Lynette learns that Tom has been visiting a woman named Nora, with whom he had a brief liaison before meeting Lynette. He has just recently learned from Nora that he has an eleven year old daughter named Kayla. Stunned and hurt, but still holding a modicum of grace, Lynette consents to let Kayla visit. Instead, she is face to face with Nora, sans Kayla, and takes an instant, active dislike for the unstable, uncouth woman. When she demands eleven years of back child support, Lynette keeps her cool and tries to find a way for the Scavos to pay Nora off, hoping that a lump sum will keep her from pursuing court action. When Nora uses the money to purchase a house near the Fairview Mall, Lynette is furious, realizing that this woman is only going to wreak further havoc for her marriage and family.
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