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A minor recurring character, 16-year-old Otis Ormonde is something of a laughingstock among his peers, being easily the youngest of the crowd attending the dances. His eagerness and immaturity in dating speaks to how the modern teenager is shaped by his social environment, and the older teenagers’ opinions of him show how harsh this social environment can be. Both of these points illustrate the obstacles that Bernice faces in learning how to socialize with her peers.
Otis Ormonde Quotes in Bernice Bobs Her Hair
The Bernice Bobs Her Hair quotes below are all either spoken by Otis Ormonde or refer to Otis Ormonde. 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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Part 1 Quotes
No matter how brilliant or beautiful a girl may be, the reputation of not being frequently cut in on makes her position at a dance unfortunate. Perhaps boys prefer her company to that of the butterflies with whom they dance a dozen times an evening, but youth in this jazz-nourished generation is temperamentally restless, and the idea of foxtrotting more than one full fox trot with the same girl is distasteful, not to say odious.
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This passage is an aside given by the narrator as Warren relieves Otis Ormonde from having to dance with Bernice. Here, the narrator muses on these young people’s social rituals: dancing is not merely dancing, but a complex, fast-paced exchange that determines who is popular and who is not. The more boys cut in on a girl’s dance, the more evidently desirable she is—but although these boys are fiercely competing to dance with a single girl, actually spending the entire dance with her would not excite them nearly as much. The competition itself is what makes her desirable, rather than 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 possimu
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Otis Ormonde Character Timeline in Bernice Bobs Her Hair
The timeline below shows where the character Otis Ormonde appears in Bernice Bobs Her Hair. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Part 1
...and makes this very request of him, saying that Bernice has been “stuck with little Otis Ormonde for almost an hour.” Disappointed, Warren nonetheless agrees, feeling that Marjorie’s approval is worth...
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Warren finds Otis waiting for Bernice, making jokes to the crowd at her expense while she fixes her...
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