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Fay Keenan
Brakey’s mother is a lonely, bitter woman, who is convinced that everyone will abandon her like her husband did. She frequently imparts this lesson upon Brakey, leading to a cool, distant relationship between them. Despite her lonely existence, Brakey’s mother feels a distinct sense of superiority toward her Pom neighbors, the Larwoods.
Brakey’s Mother Quotes in The Turning
The The Turning quotes below are all either spoken by Brakey’s Mother or refer to Brakey’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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Cockleshell
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Brakey has the rest of his life to remember Agnes Larwood and the hunger he had for her those weeks the year he turned fifteen. He’ll live to see Cockleshell disappear altogether and the luxury estate, Spinnaker Waters, take its place. Until she dies, his poor lonely mother will punctuate all talk of human affairs with the tart summation that they all leave in you in the end. Yet he often wonders about Eric Larwood, the man who wouldn’t leave. They dragged the charred shell of him out on a vinyl sheet. Agnes and her family bedded down one last time at Brakey’s place but nobody slept. Next day the Welfare people came and they were never seen in town again.
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Brakey’s Mother Quotes in The Turning
The The Turning quotes below are all either spoken by Brakey’s Mother or refer to Brakey’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:
).
Cockleshell
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Brakey has the rest of his life to remember Agnes Larwood and the hunger he had for her those weeks the year he turned fifteen. He’ll live to see Cockleshell disappear altogether and the luxury estate, Spinnaker Waters, take its place. Until she dies, his poor lonely mother will punctuate all talk of human affairs with the tart summation that they all leave in you in the end. Yet he often wonders about Eric Larwood, the man who wouldn’t leave. They dragged the charred shell of him out on a vinyl sheet. Agnes and her family bedded down one last time at Brakey’s place but nobody slept. Next day the Welfare people came and they were never seen in town again.
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