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Frank Hoenikker
Angela is Dr. Hoenikker’s daughter. Like her brother Frank, she uses ice-nine—a chip of which the three children divided up on the day their father died—for personal gain. In her case, she acquires an immensely handsome husband, Harrison C. Conners, in exchange for the technology. This, realizes John, has put ice-nine in the hands of the U.S. government (Connors works for a military technology group). Angela is a staunch defender of her father, insisting that he never got the rewards that he deserved. She also plays the clarinet very beautifully, which is Vonnegut’s way of suggesting that the beauty of human culture means little when contrasted with its capacity for self-destruction. She dies playing the clarinet after it is contaminated with ice-nine.
Angela Hoenikker Quotes in Cat’s Cradle
The Cat’s Cradle quotes below are all either spoken by Angela Hoenikker or refer to Angela Hoenikker . 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 51
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“I might as well tell you,” Angela said to me, “Dr. Breed told me I wasn’t supposed to co-operate with you. He said you weren’t interested in giving a fair picture of Father.” She showed me that she didn’t like me for that.
I placated her some by telling her that the book would probably never be done anyway, that I no longer had a clear idea of what it would or should mean.
“Well, if you ever do do the book, you better make Father a saint, because that’s what he was.”
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Chapter 110
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From what Frank had said before he slammed the door, I gathered that the Republic of San Lorenzo and the three Hoenikkers weren’t the only ones who had ice-nine. Apparently the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics had it, too. The United States had obtained it through Angela’s husband, whose plant in Indianapolis was understandably surrounded by electrified fences and homicidal German shepherds. And Soviet Russia had come by it through Newt’s little Zinka, that winsome troll of Ukrainian ballet.
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Angela Hoenikker Quotes in Cat’s Cradle
The Cat’s Cradle quotes below are all either spoken by Angela Hoenikker or refer to Angela Hoenikker . 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 51
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“I might as well tell you,” Angela said to me, “Dr. Breed told me I wasn’t supposed to co-operate with you. He said you weren’t interested in giving a fair picture of Father.” She showed me that she didn’t like me for that.
I placated her some by telling her that the book would probably never be done anyway, that I no longer had a clear idea of what it would or should mean.
“Well, if you ever do do the book, you better make Father a saint, because that’s what he was.”
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Chapter 110
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From what Frank had said before he slammed the door, I gathered that the Republic of San Lorenzo and the three Hoenikkers weren’t the only ones who had ice-nine. Apparently the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics had it, too. The United States had obtained it through Angela’s husband, whose plant in Indianapolis was understandably surrounded by electrified fences and homicidal German shepherds. And Soviet Russia had come by it through Newt’s little Zinka, that winsome troll of Ukrainian ballet.
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