Miss Kilman Flashcards
Miss Kilman’s conversion to Christianity described from Clarissa
she “turned into a church”
Miss Kilman holding capitalist values, opposing the lady of leisure
believes Clarissa is a “fool! Simpleton!” “who have trifled your life away”
Miss Kilman’s desire for religious power
She wants Clarissa to “feel her mastery” and wants to “make her weep” “humiliate her; bring her to her knees crying”
How does Miss Kilman feel about Clarissa’s life?
believes “her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit”
Miss Kilman’s internalized classism
“she could not help being ugly; she could not afford to buy pretty clothes”
Miss Kilman’s gluttony and predatory nature
she was “fingering the last two inches of chocolate eclair”
Description of Miss Kilman’s conversion
-“The lord had shown her the way”
-Now she hid her “hot and painful feeling boiled within her” (hellish imagery) covered in religious diction
Miss Kilman as a feminist
” all professions are open to women of your generation”
