home & family Flashcards
“I stood on ‘em. Earlier. All smashed”
nan covering for gladys
‘Because where you belong, and your family, is
important. To you, and to me.’
errol learning
‘He is a dear—not just because he’s my dad,
but because of all the things he does to help our
people.’
thinks he is her dad
Nan: ‘No matter how they come into the world, you
still love ‘em the same.’
rape children
Gladys: “You can’t marry anyone…least not till you’ve finished your studies. And get a good job. In town…”
gladys
Gladys: “Dolly! There’s a trainee program, at the bank, in town. I heard Nancy Woolthorpe’s mother talking about it when I was at the butcher’s…I want what any mother, black, white or brindle, wants for her daughter. That’s all.”
exepctation of dolly
[Rumbalara] It’s concrete, small, white and featureless. It’s anything but loveable.
new house
Dolly: We just have a singalong. We don’t go much for presents.
compared to errol
They forced us to leave. Forced us to leave Cummeragunja. Our home.”
nan dear
condemns family when Nan Dear limits Dolly to working “in the laundry,” Gladys limits her to a “bookkeeper,” while Dolly wants to work “at the hospital,” as “Nurse Dolly.”
opposite
You haven’t set a spot for Papa Dear.
papa dear is absent because he has to fight for community
PAPA DEAR, in oldfashioned hat and coat, dances in, throws his hat on the hatstand, kisses GLADYS on the top of the head, and dances out. No one takes any notice of him but GLADYS,
dancing into gladys’s life
