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The Edgar Street Man
The Edgar Street woman is the wife of the Edgar Street man and the mother of Angelina. She lives at the first address on the first card Ed receives. Ed witnesses her being raped by her husband on several different nights. She lives in constant fear and sadness but continues to survive and take care of her daughter. After Ed threatens and scares away her husband, the woman and her daughter live peacefully in their home.
The Edgar Street Woman Quotes in I Am the Messenger
The I Am the Messenger quotes below are all either spoken by The Edgar Street Woman or refer to The Edgar Street Woman . 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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5 of Diamonds Quotes
He has sex with her and the bed cries out in pain. It creaks and wails and only I can hear it. Christ, it’s deafening. Why can’t the world hear? I ask myself. Within a few moments I ask it many times. Because it doesn’t care, I finally answer, and I know I’m right. It’s like I’ve been chosen. But chosen for what? I ask.
The answer’s quite simple:
To care.
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The Edgar Street Woman Character Timeline in I Am the Messenger
The timeline below shows where the character The Edgar Street Woman appears in I Am the Messenger. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
5 of Diamonds: Watching, Waiting, Raping
...large, clearly drunk drunk man approaches the house. He enters and starts shouting for his wife. Through the bedroom window, Ed sees the man grab his wife and rape her. Ed...
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The rape finally stops, and the young girl goes back inside. The woman comes out and sits on the porch. Ed can see the pain all over her...
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6 of Diamonds: Pieces
...prays the missions get easier than having to stop a gigantic rapist from brutalizing his wife. Audrey asks Ed about the address on the card, but he says he can’t tell...
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...return to the house and watches as the Edgar Street man continues to rape his wife night after night. One afternoon, while Ed is grocery shopping, he sees the wife pushing...
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Queen of Diamonds: Edgar Street Revisited
...the front door of the house. He can hear the Edgar Street man assaulting his wife inside. The front door to the house opens and the daughter steps out. She introduces...
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King of Diamonds: Murder at the Cathedral
...again. Ed forces him to admit that he feels as scared right now as his wife does every night. Ed fires the gun.
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4 of Clubs: Just Ed
...the addresses on the Ace of Diamonds. Ed tells her the truth about the old woman he read to, the beautiful girl he inspired, and the abusive man he had to...
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5 of Clubs: Cabs, the Hooker, and Alice
...driving his taxi in the city and enjoying the quiet. He picks up a rough-looking woman he assumes is a sex worker. She addresses him as “honey” and “sweetie” as he...
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6 of Clubs: The Stones
...He goes back to the first house from the first card and sees that the wife and daughter are now happy without their abusive father. He continues to read to Milla....
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10 of Clubs: The Easy One and Ice Cream
...nights walking around town. He visits the house of the abusive man and watches the wife and daughter eating dinner by themselves. He passes by Milla’s house and checks on Father...
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4 of Spades: The Benefits of Lying
...card. However, the man on Glory Road is incredibly kind and affectionate to both his wife and his kids. The houses on the street are all old and cheap. So far,...
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