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Battery Sergeant Major Joyce
A prostitute who works at Maria Dreyfus’s brothel, Wet Goods. She pairs up with Robert Ross when his fellow soldiers at the army training camp pressure him into going to the brothel. During their night together, Ella alternates between compassion and frustration toward Robert’s sexual inexperience and hesitance, since she is only paid if the man has sex with her. Her own nonchalant attitude toward sex is what convinces Robert to look through a spy hole into the adjoining room, where he is horrified to see Captain Taffler having sex with a man (the Swede).
Ella Quotes in The Wars
The The Wars quotes below are all either spoken by Ella or refer to Ella. 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 1, Chapter 17
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Nothing he’d read had covered this situation. Whores, of course, had been discussed at school but no one actually ever said this is what you do. They’d made it all up. But what they’d made up was not like this. At all. They’d flown from trapezes and made love in bath tubs and ravished several women to the bed posts, but no one had ever sat in a room with lilac wallpaper and been asked if there was “nothing special you’d like.”
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Ella Quotes in The Wars
The The Wars quotes below are all either spoken by Ella or refer to Ella. 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 1, Chapter 17
Quotes
Nothing he’d read had covered this situation. Whores, of course, had been discussed at school but no one actually ever said this is what you do. They’d made it all up. But what they’d made up was not like this. At all. They’d flown from trapezes and made love in bath tubs and ravished several women to the bed posts, but no one had ever sat in a room with lilac wallpaper and been asked if there was “nothing special you’d like.”
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