Emily
- Created by: emi2266
- Created on: 19-01-22 21:43
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- Emily
- About Her
- B & C's mother, Jack's wife
- Distant, unfriendly - lets the household be managed by staff
- Single mother (basically) - handsfree parent
- debilitating migraines
- Snob, not happy that Jack is R's patron
- Traditional views abt women and class
- Resents her sister - always stole attention
- Quotes
- ‘her mother, when she wasn’t nurturing her migraines, seemed distant, even unfriendly’
- ‘illness had stopped her giving her children all a mother should’
- ‘she lay in the dark and knew everything'
- ‘It was a drama about nothing…there was no reason to worry about the twins. They were unlikely to go near the river'
- ‘She had sources of contentment in her life -the house, the park, above all, the children – and she intended to preserve them by not challenging Jack’
- ‘Wronged child, wronged wife. But she was not as unhappy as she should be. One role had prepared her for the other’
- ‘she had opposed Jack when he proposed paying for the boy’s education, which smacked of meddling to her, and unfair on Leon and the girls. She did not consider herself proved wrong simply because Robbie had come away from Cambridge with a first. In fact, it had made things harder for Cecilia with her third, though it was preposterous of her to pretend to be disappointed’
- ‘helplessly, she let herself be guided towards the drawing room, all her terror concentrated on the simple fact that he wanted her seated before he broke his news’
- ‘She belonged to a generation that treated policemen as menials, whatever their rank
- ‘she met her daughter’s fury with her own colder version “If you had done the right thing, young lady, with all your education, and come to me with this, then something could have been done in time and your cousin would have been spared her nightmare”’
- ‘Emily wanted her daughter well away from Robbie Turner’
- About Her
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