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Toward the end of the story, Joe gets a new day nurse, apparently a substitute the hospital brought in to cover for the old nurse over the holidays. Joe tries to communicate with her using Morse code, and she spells out “Merry Christmas” on his chest in response. This is a huge moment for Joe, as it’s the first time anyone has tried to communicate with him since he arrived at the hospital.
The New Day Nurse Quotes in Johnny Got His Gun
The Johnny Got His Gun quotes below are all either spoken by The New Day Nurse or refer to The New Day Nurse. 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 17
Quotes
Now he understood. The old nurse had left to spend the christmas holidays away from him and this new nurse this young lovely beautiful understanding new nurse was wishing him merry christmas. He nodded back at her frantically and his nod meant merry christmas to you merry christmas oh a merry merry christmas.
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The hotel manager looked out into the darkness and saw Mary’s white anxious face there. She’s a pretty kid he thought and scared too like her husband says. It’ll be an awful mess if she has a baby on the premises people who can’t afford them shouldn’t have babies anyway but what are you going to do about it?
Chapter 20
Quotes
Why didn’t they want him? Why were they shutting the lid of the coffin against him? Why didn’t they want him to speak? Why didn’t they want him to be seen? Why didn’t they want him to be free?
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The New Day Nurse Quotes in Johnny Got His Gun
The Johnny Got His Gun quotes below are all either spoken by The New Day Nurse or refer to The New Day Nurse. 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:
).
Chapter 17
Quotes
Now he understood. The old nurse had left to spend the christmas holidays away from him and this new nurse this young lovely beautiful understanding new nurse was wishing him merry christmas. He nodded back at her frantically and his nod meant merry christmas to you merry christmas oh a merry merry christmas.
Related Characters:
Page Number and Citation:
Explanation and Analysis:
The hotel manager looked out into the darkness and saw Mary’s white anxious face there. She’s a pretty kid he thought and scared too like her husband says. It’ll be an awful mess if she has a baby on the premises people who can’t afford them shouldn’t have babies anyway but what are you going to do about it?
Chapter 20
Quotes
Why didn’t they want him? Why were they shutting the lid of the coffin against him? Why didn’t they want him to speak? Why didn’t they want him to be seen? Why didn’t they want him to be free?
