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An army paymaster is the officer in charge of paying soldiers and other employees their salaries.
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Paymaster Term Timeline in Mother Courage and Her Children
The timeline below shows where the term Paymaster appears in Mother Courage and Her Children. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Scene 2
...to the kitchen, and embraces her. She tells him that Swiss Cheese is an army paymaster now, and that her feet hurt. The Commander asks if Mother Courage has more sons...
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Scene 3
...Courage and Kattrin fold clothes on a cannon while Swiss Cheese looks on in his paymaster uniform and an attractive young sex worker named Yvette Pottier drinks and sews a hat....
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...world, not even the weather—except that “your books must balance.” She remarks that he’s the paymaster because he’s honest, and the Ordnance Officer takes him away. Yvette complains that they didn’t...
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Scene 4
...of the Great Capitulation.” A Regimental Clerk recognizes her as the woman who harbored the paymaster (Swiss Cheese). She claims to be innocent and protests that the army destroyed her wagon...
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