Old Lady Character Analysis in Big Fish

The old lady is a woman with a glass eye who’s rumored to be a witch. She provides shelter when he first arrives in his college town of Auburn. In one of the story’s tales, an evil gang steals her glass eye, and Edward retrieves it for her, despite the gang threatening to take his own eye in return. The old lady goes with Edward to face the evil gang after he returns her eye to her, and they run away, terrified that she will curse them.

Old Lady Quotes in Big Fish

The Big Fish quotes below are all either spoken by Old Lady or refer to Old Lady . 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 as the old lady drew near they could see that it was here indeed, not in the box but back in the old lady’s head. […] And though they would have turned away they couldn’t, and as she looked at each of them, each of them in turn stared deeply into the old lady’s eye, and it was said that within the eye each of them could see their future.

Related Characters: William Bloom (speaker), Edward Bloom (William’s Father), Don Price (Gang Leader) , Old Lady

Page Number and Citation: 63

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