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The maid at Rachel Humphrey’s house, who also occasionally works in the laundry at the Governor’s wife’s house. Grace dislikes Dora’s taste for gossip. Dora and Dr. Simon Jordan also do not like one another, with Dr. Jordan consistently describing Dora in misogynistic terms. He even “tries imagining [Dora] a prostitute—he often plays this private mental game with various women he encounters—but he can’t picture any man actually paying for her services.”
Dora Quotes in Alias Grace
The Alias Grace quotes below are all either spoken by Dora or refer to Dora. 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 49
Quotes
He’ll begin to tiptoe up the stairs, intending to avoid her. Then he’ll turn around, make his way to her room, shake her roughly awake. Tonight he’ll hit her, as she’s begged him to; he’s never done that before, it’s something new. He wants to punish her for his own addiction to her. He wants to make her cry; though not too loudly, or Dora will hear them, and trumpet scandal.
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Dora Quotes in Alias Grace
The Alias Grace quotes below are all either spoken by Dora or refer to Dora. 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 49
Quotes
He’ll begin to tiptoe up the stairs, intending to avoid her. Then he’ll turn around, make his way to her room, shake her roughly awake. Tonight he’ll hit her, as she’s begged him to; he’s never done that before, it’s something new. He wants to punish her for his own addiction to her. He wants to make her cry; though not too loudly, or Dora will hear them, and trumpet scandal.
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