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Grace’s Father
Grace’s lawyer in the trial of Mr. Thomas Kinnear’s murder. MacKenzie insists that Grace make up a plausible story about the day of the murders, rather than admit that she has no memory of the day, because he believes this will improve her chance of avoiding the death penalty. Though Grace is convicted as an accomplice to Kinnear’s murder, MacKenzie succeeds in commuting her sentence from a death sentence to a life in prison. When Dr. Simon Jordan meets with MacKenzie, MacKenzie claims that Grace was in love with him; “a hand placed on hers,” he says, “and she would have thrown herself into my arms.”
Mr. Kenneth MacKenzie Quotes in Alias Grace
The Alias Grace quotes below are all either spoken by Mr. Kenneth MacKenzie or refer to Mr. Kenneth MacKenzie. 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 43
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He wanted me to tell my story in what he called a coherent way, but would often accuse me of wandering, and become annoyed with me; and at last he said that the right thing was, not to tell the story as I truly remembered it, which nobody could be expected to make any sense of; but to tell a story that would hang together, and that had some chance of being believed.
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Mr. Kenneth MacKenzie Quotes in Alias Grace
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Chapter 43
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He wanted me to tell my story in what he called a coherent way, but would often accuse me of wandering, and become annoyed with me; and at last he said that the right thing was, not to tell the story as I truly remembered it, which nobody could be expected to make any sense of; but to tell a story that would hang together, and that had some chance of being believed.
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