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Aunt Sissy
The third daughter of Mary and Thomas Rommely and the sister of Katie, Sissy, and Eliza. Francie adores her, just as she does Aunt Sissy, due to Evy’s great ability for storytelling and impressions. Aunt Evy strongly resembles Katie. She marries Willie Flittman at a young age, partly because she, like the other Rommely women, have a weakness for musical men. The couple lives “in a cheap basement flat on the fringes of a very refined neighborhood.” Evy insists on this because she is a snob and a social climber. She has three children—a son named after Willie, a girl named Blossom, and another boy named Paul Jones. To assist her climb on the social ladder, she leaves the Catholic Church in favor of the Episcopalian Church. She wants her children to love music and demonstrate talent for it, so she sends Paul and Blossom to Professor Allegretto to learn the fiddle. Willie later leaves her to become a busker and Evy gets a job at the munitions factory where he once worked.
Aunt Evy Quotes in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The A Tree Grows in Brooklyn quotes below are all either spoken by Aunt Evy or refer to Aunt Evy. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 30
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Most women had the one thing in common: they had great pain when they gave birth to their children. This should make a bond that held them all together; it should make them love and protect each other against the man-world. But it was not so. It seemed like their great birth pains shrank their hearts and their souls. They stuck together for only one thing: to trample on some other woman […] whether it was by throwing stones or by mean gossip. It was the only kind of loyalty they seemed to have. Men were different. They might hate each other but they stuck together against the world and against any woman who would ensnare one of them. “As long as I live, I will never have a woman for a friend. I will never trust any woman again, except maybe Mama and sometimes Aunt Evy and Aunt Sissy.”
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Aunt Evy Quotes in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The A Tree Grows in Brooklyn quotes below are all either spoken by Aunt Evy or refer to Aunt Evy. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 30
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Most women had the one thing in common: they had great pain when they gave birth to their children. This should make a bond that held them all together; it should make them love and protect each other against the man-world. But it was not so. It seemed like their great birth pains shrank their hearts and their souls. They stuck together for only one thing: to trample on some other woman […] whether it was by throwing stones or by mean gossip. It was the only kind of loyalty they seemed to have. Men were different. They might hate each other but they stuck together against the world and against any woman who would ensnare one of them. “As long as I live, I will never have a woman for a friend. I will never trust any woman again, except maybe Mama and sometimes Aunt Evy and Aunt Sissy.”
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