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Mrs. Bogue is Marian’s boss at Seymour Surveys and the head of the questionnaire department. Mrs. Bogue is always cheerful, though Marian senses some artificiality in Mrs. Bogue’s demeanor, especially because Mrs. Bogue seems so much happier when things go wrong. On the one hand, Marian is hurt by Mrs. Bogue’s decision to fire her after hearing of her engagement (as Mrs. Bogue has a policy where she will not employ newlyweds). On the other hand, she is somewhat relieved, as Mrs. Bogue’s repetitive, petty job makes Marian dread an eternity in the workplace almost as much as she dreads her upcoming marriage to Peter.
Mrs. Bogue Quotes in The Edible Woman
The The Edible Woman quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Bogue or refer to Mrs. Bogue. 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 19
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But now she could see the roll of fat pushed up across Mrs. Gundridge’s back by the top of her corset, the ham-like bulge of thigh […] and the others too, similar in structure but with varying proportions and textures of bumpy permanence and dune-like contours of breast and waist and hip; their fluidity sustained somewhere within by bones, without by a carapace of clothing and makeup. What peculiar creatures they were; in the continual flux between the outside and the inside, taking things in, giving them out, chewing, words, potato chips, burps, grease, hair, babies, milk, excrement, cookies, vomit, coffee, tomato juice, blood, tea, sweat, liquor, tears, and garbage…
[…] She was one of them, her body the same, identical, merged with that other flesh that choked the air in the flowered room with its sweet organic scent; she felt suffocated by this thick sargasso-sea of femininity.
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Mrs. Bogue Quotes in The Edible Woman
The The Edible Woman quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Bogue or refer to Mrs. Bogue. 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:
).
Chapter 19
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But now she could see the roll of fat pushed up across Mrs. Gundridge’s back by the top of her corset, the ham-like bulge of thigh […] and the others too, similar in structure but with varying proportions and textures of bumpy permanence and dune-like contours of breast and waist and hip; their fluidity sustained somewhere within by bones, without by a carapace of clothing and makeup. What peculiar creatures they were; in the continual flux between the outside and the inside, taking things in, giving them out, chewing, words, potato chips, burps, grease, hair, babies, milk, excrement, cookies, vomit, coffee, tomato juice, blood, tea, sweat, liquor, tears, and garbage…
[…] She was one of them, her body the same, identical, merged with that other flesh that choked the air in the flowered room with its sweet organic scent; she felt suffocated by this thick sargasso-sea of femininity.
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