Erasure

by

Percival Everett

Marilyn Tilman Character Analysis

Marilyn Tilman is a woman who lives in Annapolis, Maryland, where the Ellisons own a beach house. Monk meets her when he, Mother, and Lorraine are in town for a final vacation before it’s time to move Mother into a care facility due to her worsening Alzheimer’s symptoms. Marilyn and Monk strike up a brief romance that ends after Monk spots a copy of Juanita Mae Jenkins’s We’s Lives In Da Ghetto on Marilyn’s table and confronts her about it, insulting the book and characterizing people who read it as stupid.

Marilyn Tilman Quotes in Erasure

The Erasure quotes below are all either spoken by Marilyn Tilman or refer to Marilyn Tilman. 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:
Race and Identity  Theme Icon
).
Chapter 11 Quotes

“Have you ever known anybody who talks like they do in that book?” I could hear the edge on my voice and though I didn’t want it there, I knew that once detected, it could never be erased.

Related Characters: Thelonious “Monk” Ellison (speaker), Stagg R. Leigh, Juanita Mae Jenkins, Marilyn Tilman
Page Number: 188
Explanation and Analysis:
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Marilyn Tilman Quotes in Erasure

The Erasure quotes below are all either spoken by Marilyn Tilman or refer to Marilyn Tilman. 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:
Race and Identity  Theme Icon
).
Chapter 11 Quotes

“Have you ever known anybody who talks like they do in that book?” I could hear the edge on my voice and though I didn’t want it there, I knew that once detected, it could never be erased.

Related Characters: Thelonious “Monk” Ellison (speaker), Stagg R. Leigh, Juanita Mae Jenkins, Marilyn Tilman
Page Number: 188
Explanation and Analysis: