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The old lady is a woman with a glass eye who’s rumored to be a witch. She provides Edward shelter when he first arrives in his college town of Auburn. In one of the story’s tales, an evil gang steals her glass eye, and Edward retrieves it for her, despite the gang threatening to take his own eye in return. The old lady goes with Edward to face the evil gang after he returns her eye to her, and they run away, terrified that she will curse them.
Old Lady Quotes in Big Fish
The Big Fish quotes below are all either spoken by Old Lady or refer to Old Lady . 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 2: The Old Lady and the Eye Quotes
And as the old lady drew near they could see that it was here indeed, not in the box but back in the old lady’s head. […] And though they would have turned away they couldn’t, and as she looked at each of them, each of them in turn stared deeply into the old lady’s eye, and it was said that within the eye each of them could see their future.
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Old Lady Character Timeline in Big Fish
The timeline below shows where the character Old Lady appears in Big Fish. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Part 2: The Old Lady and the Eye
...college, so he heads for Auburn. When he finally arrives, exhausted, he boards with an old lady and sleeps for three days. Edward feels much better when he wakes up, so he...
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...eye is here, it's just not in the box. The door creaks open and the old lady walks in, wearing the glass eye. The boys can’t turn away. They stare into the...
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Part 2: In Which He Makes His Move
...is seeing Don Price (the leader of the gang in the barn who stole the old lady ’s eye), but Edward is convinced he can beat Don as he did before. One...
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