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Dolly
Auntie Cha, Dolly’s aunt, is an older, gray-haired woman. While Dolly is staying with her, she buys tickets to a formal ball and brings Dolly with her to introduce Dolly to adult society. Constantly scrutinizing Dolly’s appearance and behavior, Auntie Cha often reprimands her niece and commands her to conduct herself properly. She warns Dolly not to look too serious, scolds her for her clumsiness, and urges Dolly to look more agreeable. Auntie Cha seems exasperated with Dolly’s struggles during the ball and disappointed by Dolly’s ultimate failure to attract gentlemen. Throughout the story, Auntie Cha teaches Dolly how she thinks women should act in society and emphasizes the supposed importance of living up to these expectations.
Auntie Cha Quotes in ‘And Women Must Weep’
The ‘And Women Must Weep’ quotes below are all either spoken by Auntie Cha or refer to Auntie Cha. 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 Women Must Weep’
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But she could not bring herself to sit, for fear of crushing her dress—it was so light, so airy. How glad she felt now that she had chosen muslin, and not silk as Auntie Cha had tried to persuade her. The gossamer-like stuff seemed to float around her as she moved, and the cut of the dress made her look so tall and so different from everyday that she hardly recognised herself in the glass; the girl reflected there—in palest blue, with a wreath of cornflowers in her hair—might have been a stranger.
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Alas! in getting out a little accident happened. She caught the bottom of one of her flounces—the skirt was made of nothing else—on the iron step, and ripped off the selvedge. Auntie Cha said: “My dear, how clumsy!” She could have cried with vexation.
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And to this she clung, sitting the while wishing with her whole heart that her dress was black and her hair grey, like Auntie Cha’s […] Yes, to-night she wished she was old… an old, old woman.
“Well, I don’t know what it was, but the plain truth is, she didn’t take!”
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Auntie Cha Quotes in ‘And Women Must Weep’
The ‘And Women Must Weep’ quotes below are all either spoken by Auntie Cha or refer to Auntie Cha. 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 Women Must Weep’
Quotes
But she could not bring herself to sit, for fear of crushing her dress—it was so light, so airy. How glad she felt now that she had chosen muslin, and not silk as Auntie Cha had tried to persuade her. The gossamer-like stuff seemed to float around her as she moved, and the cut of the dress made her look so tall and so different from everyday that she hardly recognised herself in the glass; the girl reflected there—in palest blue, with a wreath of cornflowers in her hair—might have been a stranger.
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Alas! in getting out a little accident happened. She caught the bottom of one of her flounces—the skirt was made of nothing else—on the iron step, and ripped off the selvedge. Auntie Cha said: “My dear, how clumsy!” She could have cried with vexation.
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And to this she clung, sitting the while wishing with her whole heart that her dress was black and her hair grey, like Auntie Cha’s […] Yes, to-night she wished she was old… an old, old woman.
“Well, I don’t know what it was, but the plain truth is, she didn’t take!”
