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Anna is Binx’s mother. After Binx’s father died, she returned to work as a nurse. She then married Roy Smith and had six more children with him. Binx visits her at the family fishing camp on the bayou. She is unpretentious and content with the ordinary things of life. Anna is an observant Catholic and worries about Binx’s seeming lack of faith. For his part, Binx feels that his mother’s faith isn’t necessarily an expression of her theological beliefs but is instead a means of shielding herself from life’s ups and downs, especially after the loss of her eldest son, Duval. Anna doesn’t understand the nature of Binx’s search, but she loves him and tolerates his eccentric interests.
Anna Castagne Bolling Smith (Binx’s mother) Quotes in The Moviegoer
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Chapter 3, Section 2
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Sometimes when she mentions God, it strikes me that my mother uses him as but one of the devices that come to hand in an outrageous man's world, to be put to work like all the rest in the one enterprise she has any use for: the canny management of the shocks of life. It is a bargain struck at the very beginning in which she settled for a general belittlement of everything, the good and the bad. […] Losing Duval, her favorite, confirmed her in her election of the ordinary. No more heart's desire for her, thank you. After Duval's death she has wanted everything colloquial and easy, even God.
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Anna Castagne Bolling Smith (Binx’s mother) Quotes in The Moviegoer
The The Moviegoer quotes below are all either spoken by Anna Castagne Bolling Smith (Binx’s mother) or refer to Anna Castagne Bolling Smith (Binx’s mother). 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 3, Section 2
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Sometimes when she mentions God, it strikes me that my mother uses him as but one of the devices that come to hand in an outrageous man's world, to be put to work like all the rest in the one enterprise she has any use for: the canny management of the shocks of life. It is a bargain struck at the very beginning in which she settled for a general belittlement of everything, the good and the bad. […] Losing Duval, her favorite, confirmed her in her election of the ordinary. No more heart's desire for her, thank you. After Duval's death she has wanted everything colloquial and easy, even God.
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