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Don Price (Gang Leader)
Edward’s love interest, Jenny Hill is a beautiful 20-year-old-woman with blue eyes and dark braided hair who lives in a town called Specter. Edward meets and falls in love with her when he is around 40, despite already being married to Sandra. Edward, who has bought the entire town of Specter on a sort of mid-life-crisis-whim, conducts a long-term affair with Jenny. He installs her in a house in the middle of town and visits her a few days a month. Jenny is so in love with Edward that she grows dissatisfied with his lengthy absences, and her life becomes empty and bitter. She sits by the window, perpetually waiting for Edward to return. Jenny’s life grows stagnant and a swamp begins to grow around her home, trapping her there and rendering her inaccessible to everyone around her—including Edward. Eventually, all that people can see through the swamp are two glowing yellow eyes at the window. Jenny’s bleak outcome represents the fate that awaits people who spend their lives waiting instead of taking action to change their circumstances, and they become, therefore, stuck in their lives.
Jenny Hill Quotes in Big Fish
The Big Fish quotes below are all either spoken by Jenny Hill or refer to Jenny Hill . 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 3: In Which He Buys a Town, and More Quotes
The swamp stops growing after a certain point, when the house is surrounded on all sides by yards of deep, dark, mossy water. And my father returns, finally, and sees what has happened, but by this time the swamp is too deep, the house too far away, and though he sees her glowing there he can’t have her, and so he has to come back to us.
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Jenny Hill Character Timeline in Big Fish
The timeline below shows where the character Jenny Hill appears in Big Fish. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Part 3: In Which He Buys a Town, and More
...into the muck until he sees a clean, well-kept house, in which a young woman (Jenny Hill) with black braided hair and blue eyes lives. Edward tells her that he’s compelled...
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Jenny Hill politely declines, and Edward is getting desperate. She explains that she doesn’t need money...
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...and good and kind” so they don’t question Edward’s actions, although they do wonder if Jenny gets lonely when Edward’s gone, which is most of the time. Jenny is active in...
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...People forget and remember the wrong things so that “what’s left is fiction.” Edward and Jenny never marry, so people make up stories about how they met, and how Edward is...
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Jenny is young and beautiful but longs for Edward. She stares out of the window all...
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