Quotes, Intimate Apparel

Words are manipulative

You can tell more about a man by where he shops, than his practised conversation.
- Mrs Dickson

Lack of confidence
+ simile

I'll just srand there like a wallflower.
- Esther

woman of experience

I met the late Mr.Dickson he was near sixty and I forgave his infatuation with the opiates, for he come with this rooming house and look how many good years it's giving me. Sure I cussed that damn pipe, and I cussed him for making me a widow, but sometimes we get to a point where we can't be so particular.
- Mrs.Dickson

Vulnerabe
+ simile

I ain't going there to be paraded like some featherless bird.
- Esther

trying tobe someone she is not

Oh God, I look ridiculous, and I am behaving absolutely foolishly, but I am not sure what else to do. Look at me. I've been spending a fortune on feathers and every manner of accoutrement.
- Mrs.VB

society and women

I'd rather not be a divorcée - at my age it woud prove disastrous
- Mrs.VB

religion

It's the rabbinical law, not mine.
-Mr.M

dehumanization
+ women

For a dollar they think they own you.
- Mayme

Chiasmus

What she got, you want ; what you got she want.
- Esther

G. is just a concept

Are you expecting him to arrive in the mail lie some tonic from a catalogue.
- Mayme

Mayme = hopeless for love
G. is justa concept

My Panama man come and gone long time now. It sweet that he write you, but, my dear, it ain't real.
- Mayme

featherless bird opposition
+ G. = concept

I can carry him in my pocket like a feather.
- Esther

foreshadowing
sugared words = metaphor
+ dangereous situation

I know these kind of men. Sugared words, but let them stick to the page and go no further. He'll steal your common sense, he will, andwalk away. It just don't seem like you Esther, you're too practical a girl for this.
- Mrs.D

friendship btw E and M

We friends. Ain't no Panama man gonna change that.
- Esther

society
foreshadowing affair

You needn't be a prude. Trust me your man'll have needs. It's your duty to keep his member firmly at home.
- Mrs.D

society
women

Love was an entirely impractical thing for a woman in her position.
- Mrs.D

love language
no words needed

They gaze at each other, neither able to articulate their feeings.
- stage directions

married but separated

Another poolof light engulfs George.
- stage directions

G's manipulations
but also E's manipulation (however for good reasons)

She offer 'e the city stroke by stroke. She tantalise 'e with Yankee words. But 'e not find she. Only this woman 'ere, that say. "Touch me, George".
- G.

she sacrificed her dream
+ metonomy

Do you know I have done ? I tore a hole in my quilt and give him my beaty parlour.
- Esther

part of the relationship

Because, he belong to me as well.
- Mayme

strong friendship
G. fake

Let him go. He ain't real, he a duppy, a spirit. We be chasing him forever.
- Mayme

When Mr.Marks tries on the quilt
= perfect match btw him and Esther

It fits wonderfully.
- Esther