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A little girl who lives in a building across from Francie. While Francie gets ready for her date with Ben, she wonders if anyone is watching her, just as she used to watch young women prepare for their dates when she was a girl. While she is having the thought, she peers out of her window and sees Florry Wendy sitting on a fire escape and looking at Francie through the bars. Florry Wendy is a “slender little thing of ten […] with a book in her lap and a bag of candy at hand.” The little girl reminds Francie so much of herself at Florry’s age that Francie calls her by her own name instead of “Florry.” The little girl corrects her. Francie closes the window on the home that she will soon leave and says “goodbye” to the little girl as though she is saying goodbye to her childhood self.
Florry Wendy Quotes in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The A Tree Grows in Brooklyn quotes below are all either spoken by Florry Wendy or refer to Florry Wendy. 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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Chapter 56 Quotes
She looked towards the window. Yes, across two yards she saw a little
girl sitting on a fire escape with a book in her lap and a bag of candy at hand. The girl was peering through the bars at Francie […] She was a slender little thing of ten, and her name was Florry Wendy […] She looked down into the yard. The tree whose leaf umbrellas had curled around, under and over her fire escape had been cut down because the housewives complained that wash on the lines got entangled in its branches […] But the tree hadn't died […] A new tree had grown from the stump and its trunk had grown along the ground until it reached a place where there were no wash lines above it. Then it had started to grow towards the sky again. Annie, the fir tree, that the Nolans had cherished with waterings and manurings, had long since sickened and died. But this tree in the yard—this tree that men chopped down … this tree that they built a bonfire around, trying to burn up its stump—this tree lived! It lived! And nothing could destroy it.
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As Francie is preparing for a date with Ben Blake, she wonders if a little girl is watching her across the yard, just as she used to watch young women preparing for their dates. As she is having the thought, she spies Florry Wendy. The sight of the little girl, only a year younger than Francie when she first moved to Grand Street, with the book and the bag of candy helps Francie recall her childhood self. Florry is a mirror image of who she was, and Francie’s ability to see her remembered self through Florry helps her realize that Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ip
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Florry Wendy Character Timeline in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The timeline below shows where the character Florry Wendy appears in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 56
...wonders if anyone is watching her. Across the yard, she sees a little girl named Florry Wendy with a book in her lap and a bag of candy at hand, sitting on...
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...Annie, died, but this tree that men chopped down lived! Once more, Francie looks at Florry Wendy reading on the fire escape. “Good-bye, Francie,” she whispers, and closes the window.
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