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Harry Bittering
Cora Bittering is the wife of Harry Bittering and the mother of Dan, Laura, and David Bittering. Like Harry, she is at first very attached to objects and routines from Earth. However, she succumbs to the changes wrought by the Martian environment, both physical and mental, more quickly than her husband. She even helps persuade Harry to give up his obsession with Earthly things, encouraging him to eat food that has been grown on Mars and to forgo building his rocket. Cora helps Harry to accept the changes that he and his family have undergone, and to give up his futile desire to return to earth. By the end of the story, she, like Harry, has forgotten all her ties to Earth, effectively becoming a Martian.
Cora Bittering Quotes in Dark They Were, and Golden Eyed
The Dark They Were, and Golden Eyed quotes below are all either spoken by Cora Bittering or refer to Cora Bittering. 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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Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed
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Lying abed, Mr. Bittering felt his bones shifted, shaped, melted like gold. His wife, lying beside him, was dark from many sunny afternoons. Dark she was, and golden-eyed, burnt almost black by the sun, sleeping, and the children metallic in their beds, and the wind roaring forlorn and changing through the old peach trees, the violet grass, shaking out green rose petals.
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“Cora, how long have your eyes been yellow?” She was bewildered. “Always, I guess.” “They didn’t change from brown in the last three months?” She bit her lips. “No. Why do you ask?” “Never mind.”
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Cora Bittering Quotes in Dark They Were, and Golden Eyed
The Dark They Were, and Golden Eyed quotes below are all either spoken by Cora Bittering or refer to Cora Bittering. 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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Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed
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Lying abed, Mr. Bittering felt his bones shifted, shaped, melted like gold. His wife, lying beside him, was dark from many sunny afternoons. Dark she was, and golden-eyed, burnt almost black by the sun, sleeping, and the children metallic in their beds, and the wind roaring forlorn and changing through the old peach trees, the violet grass, shaking out green rose petals.
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“Cora, how long have your eyes been yellow?” She was bewildered. “Always, I guess.” “They didn’t change from brown in the last three months?” She bit her lips. “No. Why do you ask?” “Never mind.”
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