Picnic at Hanging Rock

by

Joan Lindsay

Mrs. Cutler Character Analysis

The gardener’s wife, who is a skilled nurse. She takes care of Irma after the girl is found alive on Hanging Rock—but because of Mrs. Cutler’s modesty, she fails to tell authorities that Irma was found without a corset on, which could have been an important clue in the mystery of what happened on the rock.

Mrs. Cutler Quotes in Picnic at Hanging Rock

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Chapter 8 Quotes

Greatly to Mrs. Cutler’s surprise the lamb had been brought in just as she had been lying on the Rock, without a corset. A modest woman, for whom the word corset was never uttered by a lady in the presence of a gent, she had made no comment to the doctor […] Thus the valuable clue of the missing corset was never followed up nor communicated to the police. Nor to the inmates of Appleyard College where Irma Leopold, well known for her fastidious taste […] had been seen by several of her classmates, on the morning of [the picnic] wearing a pair of long, lightly boned, French satin stays.

Related Characters: Irma Leopold, Mrs. Cutler
Page Number: 95-96
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Mrs. Cutler Quotes in Picnic at Hanging Rock

The Picnic at Hanging Rock quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Cutler or refer to Mrs. Cutler . 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:
Nature, Repression, and Colonialism Theme Icon
).
Chapter 8 Quotes

Greatly to Mrs. Cutler’s surprise the lamb had been brought in just as she had been lying on the Rock, without a corset. A modest woman, for whom the word corset was never uttered by a lady in the presence of a gent, she had made no comment to the doctor […] Thus the valuable clue of the missing corset was never followed up nor communicated to the police. Nor to the inmates of Appleyard College where Irma Leopold, well known for her fastidious taste […] had been seen by several of her classmates, on the morning of [the picnic] wearing a pair of long, lightly boned, French satin stays.

Related Characters: Irma Leopold, Mrs. Cutler
Page Number: 95-96
Explanation and Analysis: