Bold Girls-Commonality Quotes -"Self disillusion/Truth"

Question 1

Quotes for Marie’s fantasised relation with her husband?

Answer 1

Scene 1;

• SD - “ There is a small picture of the virgin on one wall, a large grainy blow-up photo of a smiling young man on the other “
• M - “ Michael Donnelly was the only boy i’d ever wanted “
• M - “ Michael brought me here and the rain stopped; it even looked like the sun had came out”
• D - “ your daddy was a good man and a brave man and he did the best he could”
• M - “ Michael would tell me over and over till he’d made a song out of that “

Scene 4;

• D - “ we cared for each other! We were honest with each other! “
• D - “ But if there was any truth in them Michael would’ve told me himself “

Question 2

Quotes for Cassie’s refusal to believe the truth about her father?

Answer 2

Scene 1;

• M - “ Oh my daddy was a lovely man. gentle. “
Scene 3;

• D - “ Poor Daddy”
Scene 4;

• D - “ That hardly ever happened “
• D - “ “Have you been upsetting Daddy again?” “
• D - “ He never hit you that bad “
• D - “ He was the gentlest man! The gentlest man if you’d just given him peace “

Question 3

Quotes for how Marie tries to escape/cope with the truth?

Answer 3

Marie - the truth of her relationship and where she lives:

• Fantasises about relationship with Michael
• She look to birds as something that can escape when they want, being quite maternal with her family, guests and the birds she feels a sense of purpose in life, almost like building a nest of her own in the hope that one day like the birds she will be able to escape the truth.
• 1 - D -“ I was wanting out with my crumbs “

Question 4

Quotes for how Cassie tries to escape/cope with the truth?

Answer 4

Cassie - affair with Michael, and life of where she lives;

• Wants to leave the area
- 3 - D - “ I’m leaving “

• Uses sarcasm to deal with day to day life where she lives

• ” I took a G.C.S.E. in identifying poisons “
• ” I thought i would need my aqualung “
• ” Heart like a Brillo pad “
• ” She’s a flock of owls come in special “

Question 5

Quotes for how Nora tries to escape/cope with the truth?

Answer 5

Nora - tries to escape the truth of where she lives and what is going on round about her by domesticating;

1- “ Ahh! will you look at what those boots are doing to my Nasturtiums”

2-M- “ If this is hell it could do with a lick of paint “

2- “ Oh but my bamboo suite”

4- “ I’ll never find a colour like that again “

Question 6

Quotes for Deirdre’s truth?

Answer 6

Wants to find out about truth about her dad;
- Scene 4 - D - “ He was my daddy “

• knife symbolise truth;
• ” I need a knife. A wee blade of my own “