Katherine Mutsenberger (Katherine III) Character Analysis in An Abundance of Katherines

Katherine III is one of the girls Colin dated at “smart-kid camp” for a very brief period. He thinks about her a lot because he cannot fit her into the Theorem. He finally calls her and finds out that the reason he has been having trouble with her and the Theorem is that he actually broke up with her, but convinced himself that she broke up with him, like all the other Katherines.

Katherine Mutsenberger (Katherine III) Quotes in An Abundance of Katherines

The An Abundance of Katherines quotes below are all either spoken by Katherine Mutsenberger (Katherine III) or refer to Katherine Mutsenberger (Katherine III). 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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And the moral of the story is that you don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened. And the second moral of the story, if a story can have multiple morals, is that Dumpers are not inherently worse than Dumpees—breaking up isn’t something that gets done to you; it’s something that happens with you.

Related Characters: Colin Singleton (speaker), Lindsey Lee Wells, Katherine Carter (Katherine I/XIX), Katherine Mutsenberger (Katherine III)

Related Symbols: “Eureka” Moments, The Theorem

Page Number and Citation: 207-8

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