The Invisible Man

by

H. G. Wells

Mrs. Hall is a woman who lives in Iping and who runs the Coach and Horses Inn with her husband, Mr. Hall. She is a polite, decent woman who fatefully overlooks Griffin’s strange behavior when he promises to pay her more money for his stay. Depending on one’s perspective, this arguably makes her greedy or simply a good business owner. She prides herself on being non-superstitious, and dismisses warning signs about Griffin’s invisibility, only believing that he is actually invisible after he reveals it to her himself.

Mrs. Hall Quotes in The Invisible Man

The The Invisible Man quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Hall or refer to Mrs. Hall. 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:
Freedom, Anonymity, and Immorality Theme Icon
).
Chapter 2 Quotes

She was all the more inclined to snap at Hall because the stranger was undoubtedly an unusually strange sort of stranger, and she was by no means assured about him in her own mind. In the middle of the night she woke up dreaming of huge white heads like turnips, that came trailing after her at the end of interminable necks, and with vast black eyes. But being a sensible woman, she subdued her terrors and turned over and went to sleep again.

Related Characters: Griffin/The Invisible Man , Mrs. Hall, Mr. Hall
Page Number: 103
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 4 Quotes

There were a number of skirmishes with Mrs. Hall on matters of domestic discipline, but in every case until late in April, when the first signs of penury began, he overrode her by the easy expedient of an extra payment. Hall did not like him, and whenever he dared he talked of the advisability of getting rid of him; but he showed his dislike chiefly by concealing it ostentatiously, and avoiding his visitor as much as possible. “Wait till the summer,” said Mrs. Hall, sagely, “when the artisks are beginning to come. Then we'll see. He may be a bit overbearing, but bills settled punctual is bills settled punctual, whatever you like to say.”

Related Characters: Mrs. Hall (speaker), Griffin/The Invisible Man , Mr. Hall
Page Number: 109
Explanation and Analysis:

The stranger did not go to church, and indeed made no difference between Sunday and the irreligious days, even in costume. He worked, as Mrs. Hall thought, very fitfully. Some days he would come down ready and be continuously busy. On others he would rise late, pace his room, fretting audibly for hours together, smoke, sleep in the armchair by the fire. Communication with the world beyond the village he had none.

Related Characters: Griffin/The Invisible Man , Mrs. Hall
Page Number: 109
Explanation and Analysis:

It was inevitable that a person of so remarkable an appearance and bearing should form a frequent topic in such a village as Iping. Opinion was greatly divided about his occupation. Mrs. Hall was sensitive on the point. When questioned, she explained very carefully that he was an “experimental investigator,” going gingerly over the syllables as one who dreads pitfalls. When asked what an experimental investigator was, she would say with a touch of superiority that most educated people knew that, and would then explain that he “discovered things”. Her visitor had had an accident, she said, which temporarily discoloured his face and hands; and being of a sensitive disposition, he was averse to any public notice of the fact.

Related Characters: Griffin/The Invisible Man , Mrs. Hall
Page Number: 110
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 7 Quotes

“You don't understand,” he said, “who I am or what I am. I'll show you. By Heaven! I'll show you.” Then he put his open palm over his face and withdrew it. The centre of his face became a black cavity. “Here,” he said. He stepped forward and handed Mrs. Hall something which she, staring at his metamorphosed face, accepted automatically. Then, when she saw what it was, she screamed loudly, dropped it, and staggered back. The nose—it was the stranger's nose! pink and shining—rolled on the floor.

Related Characters: Griffin/The Invisible Man (speaker), Mrs. Hall
Page Number: 124
Explanation and Analysis:
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Mrs. Hall Quotes in The Invisible Man

The The Invisible Man quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Hall or refer to Mrs. Hall. 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:
Freedom, Anonymity, and Immorality Theme Icon
).
Chapter 2 Quotes

She was all the more inclined to snap at Hall because the stranger was undoubtedly an unusually strange sort of stranger, and she was by no means assured about him in her own mind. In the middle of the night she woke up dreaming of huge white heads like turnips, that came trailing after her at the end of interminable necks, and with vast black eyes. But being a sensible woman, she subdued her terrors and turned over and went to sleep again.

Related Characters: Griffin/The Invisible Man , Mrs. Hall, Mr. Hall
Page Number: 103
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 4 Quotes

There were a number of skirmishes with Mrs. Hall on matters of domestic discipline, but in every case until late in April, when the first signs of penury began, he overrode her by the easy expedient of an extra payment. Hall did not like him, and whenever he dared he talked of the advisability of getting rid of him; but he showed his dislike chiefly by concealing it ostentatiously, and avoiding his visitor as much as possible. “Wait till the summer,” said Mrs. Hall, sagely, “when the artisks are beginning to come. Then we'll see. He may be a bit overbearing, but bills settled punctual is bills settled punctual, whatever you like to say.”

Related Characters: Mrs. Hall (speaker), Griffin/The Invisible Man , Mr. Hall
Page Number: 109
Explanation and Analysis:

The stranger did not go to church, and indeed made no difference between Sunday and the irreligious days, even in costume. He worked, as Mrs. Hall thought, very fitfully. Some days he would come down ready and be continuously busy. On others he would rise late, pace his room, fretting audibly for hours together, smoke, sleep in the armchair by the fire. Communication with the world beyond the village he had none.

Related Characters: Griffin/The Invisible Man , Mrs. Hall
Page Number: 109
Explanation and Analysis:

It was inevitable that a person of so remarkable an appearance and bearing should form a frequent topic in such a village as Iping. Opinion was greatly divided about his occupation. Mrs. Hall was sensitive on the point. When questioned, she explained very carefully that he was an “experimental investigator,” going gingerly over the syllables as one who dreads pitfalls. When asked what an experimental investigator was, she would say with a touch of superiority that most educated people knew that, and would then explain that he “discovered things”. Her visitor had had an accident, she said, which temporarily discoloured his face and hands; and being of a sensitive disposition, he was averse to any public notice of the fact.

Related Characters: Griffin/The Invisible Man , Mrs. Hall
Page Number: 110
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 7 Quotes

“You don't understand,” he said, “who I am or what I am. I'll show you. By Heaven! I'll show you.” Then he put his open palm over his face and withdrew it. The centre of his face became a black cavity. “Here,” he said. He stepped forward and handed Mrs. Hall something which she, staring at his metamorphosed face, accepted automatically. Then, when she saw what it was, she screamed loudly, dropped it, and staggered back. The nose—it was the stranger's nose! pink and shining—rolled on the floor.

Related Characters: Griffin/The Invisible Man (speaker), Mrs. Hall
Page Number: 124
Explanation and Analysis: