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The Narrator’s Uncle
The narrator’s mother is deceased and assumably has been for some time, as the narrator is unsentimental about her death and doesn’t object to his father wanting to remarry. The narrator’s uncle remarks that the narrator’s father bored the narrator’s mother to death, suggesting that their relationship didn’t fulfill her.
The Narrator’s Mother Quotes in The Stoat
The The Stoat quotes below are all either spoken by The Narrator’s Mother or refer to The Narrator’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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My father was reading the death notices on the back of the Independent on the lawn of the cottage. He always read the death notices first, and then, after he had exhausted the news and studied the ads for teachers, he’d pore over the death notices again.
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“Would you take it very much to heart if I decided to marry again?”
“Of course I wouldn’t. Why do you ask?”
“I was afraid you might be affronted by the idea of another woman holding the position your dear mother held.”
“Mother is dead. You should do exactly as you want to.”
“You have no objections, then?”
“None whatever”
“I wouldn’t even think of going ahead it you’d any objections.”
“Well, you can rest assured, then. I have none. Have you someone in mind?”
“No I don’t.”
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The Narrator’s Mother Character Timeline in The Stoat
The timeline below shows where the character The Narrator’s Mother appears in The Stoat. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
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...would not. His father was afraid he would be bothered by a new woman taking his mother ’s place, but the narrator bluntly said that his mother is dead and that his...
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...desire to remarry. His uncle can’t believe it and says one would think “boring one poor woman in a lifetime would be enough.” The narrator describes his father’s method of using the...
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