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Mabel is Jumpin’s wife, and Kya’s only female role model. When Kya tries to sell a bucket of disgusting smoked fish to Jumpin’, Mabel tells Jumpin’ to claim that somebody in their community wanted to trade the fish for clothing and other supplies. This, of course, isn’t true, but Mabel wants to help Kya because she feels sorry for her, knowing that the child has nobody to support her. In keeping with this, Mabel assembles a number of donations from her church and gives them to Kya. Later, when Kya is going through adolescence, Mabel brings her a bra and tells her that she can come talk if she ever has any questions. Shortly thereafter, Kya has her first period, and when she tells Mabel, Mabel gives her a long, emotional hug, telling her that she has become a woman. For the rest of her life, Mabel continues to provide Kya with emotional support, eventually telling her after Jumpin’ dies that he saw Kya as his own daughter.
Mabel Quotes in Where the Crawdads Sing
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“Lawd, we gotta do something 'bout that child. Ain’t nobody gonna buy them fish; I can cook ’em up in stew. Our church can come up wif some clothes, other things for her. We’ll tell ’er there’s some family that’ll trade jumpers for carpies. What size is she?”
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Mabel Quotes in Where the Crawdads Sing
The Where the Crawdads Sing quotes below are all either spoken by Mabel or refer to Mabel. 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 12
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“Lawd, we gotta do something 'bout that child. Ain’t nobody gonna buy them fish; I can cook ’em up in stew. Our church can come up wif some clothes, other things for her. We’ll tell ’er there’s some family that’ll trade jumpers for carpies. What size is she?”
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