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Roland Fuentes
A Chinese-American girl whose adoptive parents are Elaine and Jim Hennings, Peter and Kay’s best friends. Angel grows up in New York City, and though her parents make an effort to help her connect with Chinese culture, she can’t speak the language like Daniel. Nonetheless, she understands what it’s like to not have a relationship with one’s birth parents, which is why she helps Daniel try to track down his mother when they first meet as eleven-year-olds. This connection develops into a strong friendship that bears certain romantic traces, as Angel and Daniel talk on the phone every night when Daniel’s a student at SUNY Potsdam and Angel is a student in Iowa. However, their friendship suffers a brutal blow when Angel lends Daniel $10,000 to help him repay his poker debt. This is money that she saved to study abroad in Nepal, so he promises to promptly repay her, but he gambles it all away. As such, she tells Peter and Kay about his gambling addiction (but not about the $10,000) and stops talking to him. Still, Daniel continues to text her on a regular basis, constantly promising to pay her back. When Jim Hennings has a birthday party in the city, Angel and her new boyfriend, Charles, tell Peter and Kay that she was robbed, though they don’t specify what, exactly, happened. Later, Angel finally tells her parents the entire story, and they pass the message to Kay and Peter. When Daniel goes to China and works as a teacher at the school where Polly works, he starts repaying Angel, who finally starts talking to him again.
Angel Hennings Quotes in The Leavers
The The Leavers quotes below are all either spoken by Angel Hennings or refer to Angel Hennings. 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 2
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Daniel’s muscles contracted. So Angel hadn’t gone to Nepal. If they were still friends, if she was still talking to him, he would tell her about Michael’s e-mail, about Peter’s accusation of ingratitude, how torn he felt between anger and indebtedness. If only Peter and Kay knew how much he wanted their approval, how he feared disappointing them like he’d disappointed his mother. Angel had once told him that she felt like she owed her parents. “But we can’t make ourselves miserable because we think it’ll make them happy,” she had said. “That’s a screwed up way to live.”
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Chapter 8
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He felt a savage euphoria. The night had confirmed his failures, and he’d freed himself from having to fight his inability to live up to Peter and Kay’s hopes. He didn’t want to go to Carlough, wasn’t ever going to be the kind of guy Angel respected, some law-school-applying moral citizen. God, it was great to be himself again.
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Angel Hennings Quotes in The Leavers
The The Leavers quotes below are all either spoken by Angel Hennings or refer to Angel Hennings. 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 2
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Daniel’s muscles contracted. So Angel hadn’t gone to Nepal. If they were still friends, if she was still talking to him, he would tell her about Michael’s e-mail, about Peter’s accusation of ingratitude, how torn he felt between anger and indebtedness. If only Peter and Kay knew how much he wanted their approval, how he feared disappointing them like he’d disappointed his mother. Angel had once told him that she felt like she owed her parents. “But we can’t make ourselves miserable because we think it’ll make them happy,” she had said. “That’s a screwed up way to live.”
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Chapter 8
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He felt a savage euphoria. The night had confirmed his failures, and he’d freed himself from having to fight his inability to live up to Peter and Kay’s hopes. He didn’t want to go to Carlough, wasn’t ever going to be the kind of guy Angel respected, some law-school-applying moral citizen. God, it was great to be himself again.
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