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Mrs. Husting is Jack’s mother. When Jack returns to Richmond as a grown man, Mrs. Husting still wants to treat him like a child and does not know how to respect his boundaries. Although Jack loves Connie, Mrs. Husting tries to set him up with a girl named Emily, since her father owns a hardware store and the union would benefit their family more. Mrs. Husting also thinks very little of Kip, assuming that he will amount to nothing, demonstrating that one’s limited perspective and judgment of a person’s character and potential is often inaccurate.
Mrs. Husting Quotes in Nine Days
The Nine Days quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Husting or refer to Mrs. Husting. 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 3: Jack
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I can imagine [Mrs. Husting’s] face close to the keyhole. She’s been pacing up and down the hall for the best part of ten minutes. She’s imagining what she might be disturbing. She is unsure how to mother a grown man.
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Although even then, Mum says, Kip will never make anything of himself, (“that’s plain”), and if we have to send boys to fight overseas—here she gives me a nervous glance—“it’s layabout boys with no responsibilities, the Kip Westaways of the world, who ought to be going.”
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Mrs. Husting Quotes in Nine Days
The Nine Days quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Husting or refer to Mrs. Husting. 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 3: Jack
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I can imagine [Mrs. Husting’s] face close to the keyhole. She’s been pacing up and down the hall for the best part of ten minutes. She’s imagining what she might be disturbing. She is unsure how to mother a grown man.
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Although even then, Mum says, Kip will never make anything of himself, (“that’s plain”), and if we have to send boys to fight overseas—here she gives me a nervous glance—“it’s layabout boys with no responsibilities, the Kip Westaways of the world, who ought to be going.”
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