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Sophie’s mother. She appears to be a homemaker who is resigned to a dreary life, and is not particularly interested in or close to her children or husband. Very little information is provided about her aside from the “delicate” looking bow on her apron, and the overwhelming amount of housework she appears to be in charge of.
Mother Quotes in Going Places
The Going Places quotes below are all either spoken by Mother or refer to Mother . 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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Going Places Quotes
Their mother sighed.
Sophie watched her back stooped over the sink and wondered at the incongruity of the delicate bow which fastened her apron strings. The delicate-seeming bow and the crooked back. The evening had already blacked in the windows and the small room was steamy from the stove and cluttered with the heavy-breathing man in his vest at the table and the dirty washing piled up in the corner. Sophie felt a tightening in her throat.
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As Sophie returns home, she briefly interacts with her family members, and takes notice of her mother in the kitchen. This is one of the only glimpses the reader has of Sophie’s mother, and it is a grim picture: Sophie’s mother is a sort of inhuman laborer, toiling in a hot and disorderly kitchen to serve her family while never speaking a word (her only form of expression at all is a sigh). This labor is gendered female, since it is housework (specifically in the kitchen) and her mother is wearing an apron with a bow. However, Sophie also notes 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 possimus quo. Non inventore in. Eligendi atque placeat. Molestiae earum eum. Libero sit bea
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Mother Character Timeline in Going Places
The timeline below shows where the character Mother appears in Going Places. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
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...very much.” Sophie’s little brother Derek quips that Sophie “thinks money grows on trees,” and their mother sighs. Sophie watches her mother “stooped over the sink,” noticing the “incongruity” between the “delicate...
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