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Raymond is the narrator’s younger brother. He is one of a set of twins — Doris is his twin sister. Both Doris and Raymond are cared for by the narrator after their mother dies and their father devolves too far into drinking to parent them. They regularly hide in the woods when they hear their father coming home to avoid his drunken beatings. As adults, Raymond and Doris marry a set of siblings, and they continue to live near the narrator and their father. Sometimes, they discuss their childhoods. These conversations occasionally reveal new information: for example, it is through this kind of comparison of memory that the narrator learns that Raymond once saw him hiding their father’s belt.
Raymond Quotes in The Shawl
The The Shawl quotes below are all either spoken by Raymond or refer to Raymond. 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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When we get together … there come times in the talking and card playing, and maybe even in the light beer now and then, when we will bring up those days. Most people understand how it was. Our story isn’t uncommon. But for us it helps to compare our points of view. How else would I know, for instance, that Raymond saw me the first time I hid my father’s belt?”
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He became, for us, a thing to be avoided, outsmarted, and exploited. We survived off him as if he were a capricious and dangerous line of work. I suppose we stopped thinking of him as a human being, certainly as a father.
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Raymond Quotes in The Shawl
The The Shawl quotes below are all either spoken by Raymond or refer to Raymond. 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 Shawl
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When we get together … there come times in the talking and card playing, and maybe even in the light beer now and then, when we will bring up those days. Most people understand how it was. Our story isn’t uncommon. But for us it helps to compare our points of view. How else would I know, for instance, that Raymond saw me the first time I hid my father’s belt?”
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He became, for us, a thing to be avoided, outsmarted, and exploited. We survived off him as if he were a capricious and dangerous line of work. I suppose we stopped thinking of him as a human being, certainly as a father.
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