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The Little Match Girl’s father appears in the story in passing, when she mentions that she doesn’t dare escape the cold by going home on New Year’s Eve. She hasn’t earned even a cent, and returning home without money would lead her father to beat her. The threat of her father’s abuse makes her choose to remain on the cold streets, which leads her to freeze to death.
Father Quotes in The Little Match Girl
The The Little Match Girl quotes below are all either spoken by Father or refer to Father. 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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The Little Match Girl
Quotes
She didn’t dare go home because she had sold no matches and was frightened that her father might beat her. Besides, her home was almost as cold as the street. She lived in an attic, right under a tile roof. The wind whistled through it, even though they had tried to close the worst of the holes and cracks with straw and old rags.
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Father Quotes in The Little Match Girl
The The Little Match Girl quotes below are all either spoken by Father or refer to Father. 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:
).
The Little Match Girl
Quotes
She didn’t dare go home because she had sold no matches and was frightened that her father might beat her. Besides, her home was almost as cold as the street. She lived in an attic, right under a tile roof. The wind whistled through it, even though they had tried to close the worst of the holes and cracks with straw and old rags.
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