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Emma is Olive's seventy-year-old mother. She allows the layoff season shenanigans to take place at her home in Carlton, Victoria, and Olive lives with her the rest of the year. Emma is a wry, irritable old lady who's always looking to eke money out of her houseguests, Barney and Roo in particular. She loves to eavesdrop and is generally cantankerous, though she cooks for her houseguests and tidies after them. She also loves to sing, and her voice is something she's exceptionally proud of. She kindly offers to lend Roo money and tries to support him in other ways throughout the play. She enlightens Roo to the fact that he's old and implies that she thought more highly of Nancy than she does of Roo, Barney, or Olive. Emma especially doesn't think very highly of Olive, as she thinks it's silly and immature for a grownup woman to cling so tightly to the kewpie dolls that Roo brings.
Emma Leech Quotes in Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll quotes below are all either spoken by Emma Leech or refer to Emma Leech. 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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Act 3, Scene 1
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I started off trying to fix up what they broke. After that, I couldn't seem to stop. Emma always sez tryin' to shift heavy furniture on your own's a sign you're crooked on the world. Wonder what spring cleanin' at two o'clock in the morning means?
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This is what I call interestin'. The lot of yez squabbling at last 'stead of all that playin' around went on other times. Only thing I'm sorry for is Nancy ain't here. She knew which way the wind was blowin', that one.
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You and Barney are two of a pair. Only the time he spent chasin' wimmin, you put in being top dog! Both of you champions! Well, that's all very fine and a lot of fun while it lasts, but last is one thing it just don't do. There's a time for sowing and a time for reaping—and reapin' is what you're doing now.
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Emma Leech Quotes in Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll quotes below are all either spoken by Emma Leech or refer to Emma Leech. 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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Act 3, Scene 1
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I started off trying to fix up what they broke. After that, I couldn't seem to stop. Emma always sez tryin' to shift heavy furniture on your own's a sign you're crooked on the world. Wonder what spring cleanin' at two o'clock in the morning means?
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This is what I call interestin'. The lot of yez squabbling at last 'stead of all that playin' around went on other times. Only thing I'm sorry for is Nancy ain't here. She knew which way the wind was blowin', that one.
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You and Barney are two of a pair. Only the time he spent chasin' wimmin, you put in being top dog! Both of you champions! Well, that's all very fine and a lot of fun while it lasts, but last is one thing it just don't do. There's a time for sowing and a time for reaping—and reapin' is what you're doing now.
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