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Miss Charlotte Evelyn-Hyde
Rocket Man is a character from the chapter-plays Annie used to enjoy at the movies. His storylines featured dramatic cliffhangers, and Annie spent the week after each installment trying to figure out how Rocket Man would survive. She was infuriated by the episode in which Rocket Man escaped a brakeless car in a way that contradicted the previous week’s installment, calling it a “cheat.”
Rocket Man Quotes in Misery
The Misery quotes below are all either spoken by Rocket Man or refer to Rocket Man. 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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Part 2, Chapters 1-6
Quotes
“When he found that parachute under the seat, it was fair. Maybe not all that realistic, but fair.”
He thought about this, startled—her occasional sharp insights never failed to startle him—and decided it was true. Fair and realistic might be synonyms in the best of all possible worlds, but if so, this was not that world.
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Explanation and Analysis:
She suddenly leaped at him with that limber ferocity, and although he felt certain she meant to hurt him as she had before, possibly because she couldn’t get at the dirty birdie of a scriptwriter who had cheated Rocket Man out of the Hudson before it went over the cliff, he did not move at all—he could see the seeds of her current instability in the window of the past she had just opened for him, but he was also awed by it—the injustice she felt was, in spite of its childishness, completely, inarguably real.
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Rocket Man Quotes in Misery
The Misery quotes below are all either spoken by Rocket Man or refer to Rocket Man. 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:
).
Part 2, Chapters 1-6
Quotes
“When he found that parachute under the seat, it was fair. Maybe not all that realistic, but fair.”
He thought about this, startled—her occasional sharp insights never failed to startle him—and decided it was true. Fair and realistic might be synonyms in the best of all possible worlds, but if so, this was not that world.
Related Characters:
Page Number and Citation:
Explanation and Analysis:
She suddenly leaped at him with that limber ferocity, and although he felt certain she meant to hurt him as she had before, possibly because she couldn’t get at the dirty birdie of a scriptwriter who had cheated Rocket Man out of the Hudson before it went over the cliff, he did not move at all—he could see the seeds of her current instability in the window of the past she had just opened for him, but he was also awed by it—the injustice she felt was, in spite of its childishness, completely, inarguably real.
