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Mia
Maxine, Mia, and Nathan’s mother and Mr. Winters’s wife. She’s very concerned about appearances and keeps an impeccable, expensive-looking home. Mrs. Winters also loves collecting art by black artists. She’s obviously proud of Nathan and Mia, who are both young professionals and entrepreneurs, but she’s very dismissive and disapproving of Maxine. She takes special offense to the Woman to Woman program, though Jade senses that Maxine chose to do the program in the first place to try to impress Mrs. Winters and show her that she could do something meaningful. Though Mrs. Winters isn’t purposefully or openly rude to Jade, Jade still feels uncomfortable at the Winters’s house. Jade thinks that Mrs. Winters is sympathetic to the point of being rude, as she sends bags and bags of leftovers home with Jade which, in Jade’s mind, just draws attention to her poverty.
Mrs. Winters Quotes in Piecing Me Together
The Piecing Me Together quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Winters or refer to Mrs. Winters. 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 41
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Everyone is so excited about Nathan’s announcement that the family check-in stops, and all Mrs. Winters can do is make plans for the baby shower. No one asks Maxine if she has any news. I can tell Maxine is hurt by this. Because when Mia says, “We should paint a mural in the baby’s nursery. That would be so much fun, wouldn’t it, Maxine?” Maxine says, “Yeah, sure. That would be awesome,” but her voice is flat and without emotion.
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Chapters 42 - 43
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“But I don’t look up to Maxine,” I tell her. “She’s using me to feel better about herself. And her mother gave us all this food because she feels sorry for us. If that’s how you act when you have money, I’d rather stay poor.”
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Mrs. Winters Quotes in Piecing Me Together
The Piecing Me Together quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Winters or refer to Mrs. Winters. 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 41
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Everyone is so excited about Nathan’s announcement that the family check-in stops, and all Mrs. Winters can do is make plans for the baby shower. No one asks Maxine if she has any news. I can tell Maxine is hurt by this. Because when Mia says, “We should paint a mural in the baby’s nursery. That would be so much fun, wouldn’t it, Maxine?” Maxine says, “Yeah, sure. That would be awesome,” but her voice is flat and without emotion.
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Chapters 42 - 43
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“But I don’t look up to Maxine,” I tell her. “She’s using me to feel better about herself. And her mother gave us all this food because she feels sorry for us. If that’s how you act when you have money, I’d rather stay poor.”
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