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Jack Cherrystone
A resident of Arroyo Blanco Estates and occasional employer of América Rincón. On the first day that América works for him, Shirley predatorily places his hand in her lap while driving her home; the narration is ambiguous about whether he further sexually harasses her. Shirley’s harassment of América is heavily ironized later in the novel, when Shirley argues that one of the main reasons the wall should be erected around Arroyo Blanco Estates is to protect (white) women from sexual assault.
Jim Shirley Quotes in The Tortilla Curtain
The The Tortilla Curtain quotes below are all either spoken by Jim Shirley or refer to Jim Shirley. 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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Part 2, Chapter 7
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All she could see was the image of those animals at the border, the half-a-gringo and his evil eyes and filthy insinuating fingers, the fat white man with his fat white hands, and she withdrew into herself, dwelled there deep inside where nobody could touch her. “Hey, baby,” they called when they saw her there trying to melt into the darkness, “hey, ruca, hey, sexy, ¿quieres joder conmigo?”
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Jim Shirley Quotes in The Tortilla Curtain
The The Tortilla Curtain quotes below are all either spoken by Jim Shirley or refer to Jim Shirley. 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:
).
Part 2, Chapter 7
Quotes
All she could see was the image of those animals at the border, the half-a-gringo and his evil eyes and filthy insinuating fingers, the fat white man with his fat white hands, and she withdrew into herself, dwelled there deep inside where nobody could touch her. “Hey, baby,” they called when they saw her there trying to melt into the darkness, “hey, ruca, hey, sexy, ¿quieres joder conmigo?”
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