Female Characters Flashcards
The Telegram
“But no matter how hard you tried you could never like the thin woman”
” I lived on a pension of ten shillings a week. I was in nobody’s debt”
They were like two birds, one a fat domestic bird perhaps, the other… More like a buzzard.
The Red Door
“She made no concessions to anybody”
“Her world was her own, depending on none”
“Now Mary had elegance”
“She never gossipped. She was proud and distant”
“Considered slightly odd by the villagers”
Mother and Son
“There was a bitter smile on her lips as if fixed there”
“As if she was wrestling with some terrible witch’s idea in her dreams”
“How can this thing make my life a hell for me? What is she anyway”
“She enjoyed pricking him with her subtle arrows”
Home
“She walked with a certain exaggerated delicacy”
” She kept her fur coat as far away as she could”
“Remember it was me who drove you to the top”
