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Dwayne Hoover’s wife and Bunny’s mother. Like Vonnegut’s own mother, Celia commits suicide when she drinks a bottle of Drāno, a type of commercial drain cleaner. Celia struggles with her mental health for several years before she kills herself, yet her family never seems to notice. Celia represents mental illness and suicide within American society, but more specifically, her experiences and the indifference of her family echoes society’s tendency to avoid acknowledging and treating mental illness, and the tragic consequences of that avoidance.
Celia Hoover Quotes in Breakfast of Champions
The Breakfast of Champions quotes below are all either spoken by Celia Hoover or refer to Celia Hoover. 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 17
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Listen: Bunny’s mother and my mother were different sorts of human beings, but they were both beautiful in exotic ways, and they both boiled over with chaotic talk about love and peace and wars and evil and desperation, of better days coming by and by, of worse days coming by and by. And both our mothers committed suicide. Bunny’s mother ate Drāno. My mother ate sleeping pills, which wasn’t nearly as horrible.
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Celia Hoover Quotes in Breakfast of Champions
The Breakfast of Champions quotes below are all either spoken by Celia Hoover or refer to Celia Hoover. 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 17
Quotes
Listen: Bunny’s mother and my mother were different sorts of human beings, but they were both beautiful in exotic ways, and they both boiled over with chaotic talk about love and peace and wars and evil and desperation, of better days coming by and by, of worse days coming by and by. And both our mothers committed suicide. Bunny’s mother ate Drāno. My mother ate sleeping pills, which wasn’t nearly as horrible.
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