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An Irish leprechaun who breaks stereotypes through his height (over six feet tall) and his preference for Southern Comfort whiskey over Guinness beer. Mad Sweeney helps Shadow get the gold coin meant for the King of America that brings Laura back to life, but pays for this coin trick with his life when the New Gods come after him.
Mad Sweeney Quotes in American Gods
The American Gods quotes below are all either spoken by Mad Sweeney or refer to Mad Sweeney. 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 8 Quotes
"I did it like he said. I did it all like he said, but I gave you the wrong coin. It wasn't meant to be that coin. That's for royalty. You see? I shouldn't even have been able to take it. That's the coin you'd give to the King of America himself…
"You did it like who said, Sweeney?"
"Grimnir. The dude you call Wednesday. You know who he is? Who he really is?"
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Mad Sweeney finds Shadow in Cairo and asks for the gold coin from the hoard of the sun. Unbeknownst to Shadow, Mad Sweeney showed Shadow how to steal these coins at Mr. Wednesday’s request. Mr. Wednesday, or Grimnir (Odin), as he is known in other countries, is secretly manipulating many situations in Shadow’s life, though Shadow has no knowledge of the extent of Mr. Wednesday’s plans. Mad Sweeney thus tries to warn Shadow about Wednesday’s deceitful nature here. Yet Mr. Wednesday does not have complete control over how his manipulations play out, specifically because Shadow has a special relationship to 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 ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus quo. Non inventore in. Eligendi atque placeat. Molestiae earum eum. Libero sit beatae. At a deserunt. Sint aperiam con
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Mad Sweeney Character Timeline in American Gods
The timeline below shows where the character Mad Sweeney appears in American Gods. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 2
Mr. Wednesday then welcomes Mad Sweeney , a tall man with ginger hair, to their table, and then goes to the...
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Mad Sweeney warns Shadow that Wednesday is a hustler, and then the bar falls silent. Shadow comments...
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Mad Sweeney puts “Who Loves the Sun” on the jukebox, and then notices that Shadow is doing...
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Mad Sweeney brings his coin trick back up, offering to fight Shadow for the secret. Shadow refuses,...
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...to his own rental car, but Wednesday assures Shadow that he made a deal with Mad Sweeney that Mad Sweeney would take the car back. Shadow has no memory of making a...
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Wednesday stops at a gas station to let Shadow clean up his injuries from fighting Mad Sweeney . Shadow wonders what Laura will say when she sees his black eye, then remembers...
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Chapter 8
...and then walks out into the fresh-fallen snow. As he approaches a bridge, Shadow sees Mad Sweeney , looking scared.
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Mad Sweeney jumps when he sees Shadow, nervously starting to explain that he has made a huge...
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...pretend that death does not happen. Shadow pulls up behind the police cars and sees Mad Sweeney ’s frozen body next to a dumpster, with a bottle of Jameson Irish whiskey still...
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That evening, Shadow, Ibis, and Jacquel drink Jameson Gold in honor of Mad Sweeney , with Mad Sweeney’s body propped up in a chair. Ibis reads his account of...
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