The maid is working at the hotel when the girl with the dark glasses goes blind while having sex with the man from the hotel. The girl begins screaming and attracts the attention of the hotel maid, who reports what she has witnessed. Eventually, the maid also goes blind and ends up in the quarantined hospital, where she inquires about the girl with the glasses, who evidently left a lasting impression on her.
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The maid Character Timeline in Blindness
The timeline below shows where the character The maid appears in Blindness. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 5
...the doctor,” the policeman who took the car-thief home after the thief went blind, and the maid who discovered the girl with the glasses screaming in the hotel. However, the patients themselves...
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...he does not know how long everyone will be sick or stuck in the ward. The hotel maid comments that she wants to know how the naked girl with the dark glasses ended...
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