Previous
The Old Gentleman
A grocer whose grocery store is next to the café where Jean and Berenger meet. He’s prickly because the Housewife is buying groceries elsewhere and gets very caught up in the arbitrary argument over whether or not the rhinoceros or rhinoceroses running through town are Asian or African and how many horns they have.
The Grocer Quotes in Rhinoceros
The Rhinoceros quotes below are all either spoken by The Grocer or refer to The Grocer. 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:
).
Act 1, Scene 1
Quotes
Grocer: —it may be logical, but are we going to stand for our cats being run down under our very eyes by one-horned rhinoceroses or two, whether they’re Asiatic or African?
Related Characters:
Related Symbols:
Related Themes:
Page Number and Citation:
Explanation and Analysis:
Get the entire Rhinoceros LitChart as a printable PDF.
The Grocer Quotes in Rhinoceros
The Rhinoceros quotes below are all either spoken by The Grocer or refer to The Grocer. 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:
).
Act 1, Scene 1
Quotes
Grocer: —it may be logical, but are we going to stand for our cats being run down under our very eyes by one-horned rhinoceroses or two, whether they’re Asiatic or African?
Related Characters:
Related Symbols:
Related Themes:
Page Number and Citation:
Explanation and Analysis:
