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Mrs. Mavis Bangs is a Killick-Claw local who becomes one of Agnis Hamm’s employees. Mrs. Bangs has been married twice, the first time at age 15, and she has lost both her husbands. The first died at sea, the second in an airplane crash. After this, she vows not to marry again, unwilling to go through such grief a third time. In the shop, she makes herself indispensable to Agnis, and by the end of the book, it’s implied that the two may have begun a romantic relationship.
Mrs. Mavis Bangs Quotes in The Shipping News
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Chapter 8: A Slippery Hitch
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The aunt drove her needles furiously. Wool twitched through her fingers.
“Of course you can do the job. We face up to awful things because we can’t go around them, or forget them. The sooner you get it over with, the sooner you say ‘Yes, it happened, and there’s nothing I can do about it,’ the sooner you can get on with your own life. You’ve got children to bring up. So you’ve got to get over it. What we have to get over, somehow we do. Even the worst things.”
Sure, get over it, thought Quoyle. Ten-cent philosophy. She didn’t know what he had been through. Was going through.
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Mrs. Mavis Bangs Quotes in The Shipping News
The The Shipping News quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Mavis Bangs or refer to Mrs. Mavis Bangs. 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:
).
Chapter 8: A Slippery Hitch
Quotes
The aunt drove her needles furiously. Wool twitched through her fingers.
“Of course you can do the job. We face up to awful things because we can’t go around them, or forget them. The sooner you get it over with, the sooner you say ‘Yes, it happened, and there’s nothing I can do about it,’ the sooner you can get on with your own life. You’ve got children to bring up. So you’ve got to get over it. What we have to get over, somehow we do. Even the worst things.”
Sure, get over it, thought Quoyle. Ten-cent philosophy. She didn’t know what he had been through. Was going through.
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