Daddy is Anne’s father. Anne, Mama, and her sister Adline live with him on Mr. Carter’s plantation at the beginning of the memoir. He is a gambler with a short temper. During Anne’s childhood, he has an affair with a woman named Florence and leaves the family. After this split, Mama refuses help from him in supporting the children. When Anne gets in touch with him again as a teenager after she runs away from her mother’s house, he is married to a woman named Emma. Despite their troubled past, he excitedly takes Anne into his home and shows that he has improved as a father.
Daddy (Diddly) Quotes in Coming of Age in Mississippi
The Coming of Age in Mississippi quotes below are all either spoken by Daddy (Diddly) or refer to Daddy (Diddly). 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 1
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I’m still haunted by dreams of the time we lived on Mr. Carter’s plantation. Lots of Negroes lived on his place. Like Mama and Daddy they were all farmers. We all lived in rotten two-room shacks. But ours stood out from the others because it was up on the hill with Mr. Carter’s big white house, overlooking the farms and the other shacks below.
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Daddy (Diddly) Quotes in Coming of Age in Mississippi
The Coming of Age in Mississippi quotes below are all either spoken by Daddy (Diddly) or refer to Daddy (Diddly). 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:
).
Chapter 1
Quotes
I’m still haunted by dreams of the time we lived on Mr. Carter’s plantation. Lots of Negroes lived on his place. Like Mama and Daddy they were all farmers. We all lived in rotten two-room shacks. But ours stood out from the others because it was up on the hill with Mr. Carter’s big white house, overlooking the farms and the other shacks below.
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