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Patrick “Fitzy” FitzWilliams
Mr. Ransom is Sally’s father, who depends on her for all his housework. He resents Sally’s willfulness and expects her to tend his house for the rest of her life. He buys the Watson family farm after Emmett and Billy leave, and Sally accuses him of withholding help from Charlie Watson to force him to sell the farm.
Mr. Ransom Quotes in The Lincoln Highway
The The Lincoln Highway quotes below are all either spoken by Mr. Ransom or refer to Mr. Ransom . 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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6. Sally
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––[…] after fifty-five years in Nebraska, I think I can tell a stayer from a goer.
––Is that so, I said. Then tell me, Mr. Ransom: Which am I?
You should have seen his face when I said that. […]
––I have indulged you in your manner and your habits; indulged you in your temper and your tongue. But Sally, so help me God, I have come to see that I may have done you a terrible disservice. For by giving you full rein, I have allowed you to become a willful young woman, one who is accustomed to nursing her furies and speaking her mind, and who is, in all likelihood, unsuited to matrimony.
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3. Sally
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So, if the will to move is as old as mankind […], what happens to a man like my father? What switch is flicked […] that takes the God-given will for motion and transforms it into the will for staying put?
[…] If you asked them what brought about the change, they will cloak it in the language of virtue. They will tell you that the American Dream is to settle down, raise a family, make an honest living. […] But maybe the will to stay put stems not from a man’s virtues but from his vices. […] I do believe that the Good Lord has a mission for each and every one of us […]. But maybe […] what He hopes for us is that––like His only begotten son––we will go out into the world and find it for ourselves.
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Mr. Ransom Quotes in The Lincoln Highway
The The Lincoln Highway quotes below are all either spoken by Mr. Ransom or refer to Mr. Ransom . 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:
).
6. Sally
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––[…] after fifty-five years in Nebraska, I think I can tell a stayer from a goer.
––Is that so, I said. Then tell me, Mr. Ransom: Which am I?
You should have seen his face when I said that. […]
––I have indulged you in your manner and your habits; indulged you in your temper and your tongue. But Sally, so help me God, I have come to see that I may have done you a terrible disservice. For by giving you full rein, I have allowed you to become a willful young woman, one who is accustomed to nursing her furies and speaking her mind, and who is, in all likelihood, unsuited to matrimony.
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3. Sally
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So, if the will to move is as old as mankind […], what happens to a man like my father? What switch is flicked […] that takes the God-given will for motion and transforms it into the will for staying put?
[…] If you asked them what brought about the change, they will cloak it in the language of virtue. They will tell you that the American Dream is to settle down, raise a family, make an honest living. […] But maybe the will to stay put stems not from a man’s virtues but from his vices. […] I do believe that the Good Lord has a mission for each and every one of us […]. But maybe […] what He hopes for us is that––like His only begotten son––we will go out into the world and find it for ourselves.
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