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Betsy is Demon’s paternal grandmother. Betsy is suspicious and distrustful of men, and the novel intimates that she survived an abusive relationship when she was younger. She is deeply invested in her community and has helped raise more than 11 girls who didn’t have homes. She lives with her brother, Dick, and one of the girls she is raising, Jane Ellen. Another one of those girls grew up to marry Coach Winfield before dying of cancer, and Betsy helps facilitate Demon’s foster placement in Coach’s house. Betsy never takes money from DSS or any other social service agency, believing that those agencies are corrupt and serve themselves more than the people they claim to help.
Betsy Woodall Quotes in Demon Copperhead
The Demon Copperhead quotes below are all either spoken by Betsy Woodall or refer to Betsy Woodall. 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 25
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He said his parents, sisters, and all their dump friends were so-called no-toucher people. Meaning if they touched food or anything at all, it was like, doomed. Regular people would have none of it. Same for bodies, no shaking hands. If he let his shadow touch a high-class person, they’d call the cops to come beat the hell out of him. He said a name for this kind of people that sounded like “dolly”[…]. He said he never would get used to how nice Americans are to each other […]. But if we had a word for that kind of person in America, it would get used.
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Betsy Woodall Quotes in Demon Copperhead
The Demon Copperhead quotes below are all either spoken by Betsy Woodall or refer to Betsy Woodall. 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 25
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He said his parents, sisters, and all their dump friends were so-called no-toucher people. Meaning if they touched food or anything at all, it was like, doomed. Regular people would have none of it. Same for bodies, no shaking hands. If he let his shadow touch a high-class person, they’d call the cops to come beat the hell out of him. He said a name for this kind of people that sounded like “dolly”[…]. He said he never would get used to how nice Americans are to each other […]. But if we had a word for that kind of person in America, it would get used.
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