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The lodgers
A few months after Gregor's transformation, his family hires the Charwoman to replace the servant girl and the cook. She is large, white-haired, and crude. Of all the characters, she is the least disgusted and frightened by Gregor, though she is not particularly nice either. She likes to look in on him and make fun of him.
Charwoman Quotes in The Metamorphosis
The The Metamorphosis quotes below are all either spoken by Charwoman or refer to Charwoman. 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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Section 3
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Instead of being allowed to disturb him so senselessly whenever the whim took her, she should rather have been ordered to clean out his room daily, that charwoman!
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Charwoman Quotes in The Metamorphosis
The The Metamorphosis quotes below are all either spoken by Charwoman or refer to Charwoman. 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:
).
Section 3
Quotes
Instead of being allowed to disturb him so senselessly whenever the whim took her, she should rather have been ordered to clean out his room daily, that charwoman!
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Page Number and Citation:
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