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Grace Andrews
Jodie is Bruce’s partner in his job as a paramedic. Bruce catches her bad-mouthing him on the phone, and she feels badly about it. Bruce, however, understands that she is just inexperienced and that there are certain things she cannot yet grasp—at the time of their partnership, Bruce has daughters Jodie’s age. She wants to know how Bruce could know that the strangled boy at their emergency scene died by accident and not suicide, but Bruce doesn’t think that his troubled adolescent history with autoerotic asphyxiation can or should be divulged. The unbridgeable gap between middle-aged Bruce and 20-something Jodie perhaps mirrors the gap that once stood between adolescent Bruce and his older, more traumatized and pessimistic companions like Eva.
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Jodie Character Timeline in Breath
The timeline below shows where the character Jodie appears in Breath. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Pages 1-37
On a shady street in a Western Australian town, Bruce Pike (the narrator) and Jodie are hurtling in their ambulance toward the source of an emergency call. Bruce pretends to...
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...collarbone sits balled up in the yard, and inside, two teenage sisters direct Bruce and Jodie upstairs, hardly moving. Upstairs, they find middle-aged June over the dead body of her 17-year-old...
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Back in the ambulance, Jodie suggests that Bruce was flirting with June. Bruce counters by referencing a recent incident where...
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...memories evoked by the suffocated boy tonight cannot be explained to some inexperienced newcomer like Jodie.
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