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Mistress Cutler is the owner of the tavern where Lyddie works as an indentured servant. She is a cruel, demanding figure, fawning over her wealthy customers even as she mistreats and underpays the people who work for her. When Lyddie takes a week off to visit her home, Mistress Cutler immediately fires the young girl.
Mistress Cutler Quotes in Lyddie
The Lyddie quotes below are all either spoken by Mistress Cutler or refer to Mistress Cutler . 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 3 Quotes
“Lucky you’re so plain. Guests couldn’t leave the last girl be.” [The cook] was ladling stew into a large serving basin. “Won’t have no trouble with you, will we?”
[…Lyddie] hadn't had a new dress since they sold the sheep four years ago. Since then, her body had begun to make those strange changes to womanhood that exasperated her. Why couldn’t she be as thin and straight as a boy? Why couldn’t she have been a boy?
[…] She was, as girls go, scrawny and muscular, yet her boyish frame had in the last year betrayed her. Her breasts were small and her hips only slightly curved, but she couldn’t help presenting these visible signs that she was doomed to be female.
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Mistress Cutler Character Timeline in Lyddie
The timeline below shows where the character Mistress Cutler appears in Lyddie. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 3
...gets out. But before Lyddie can talk to the woman, she is whisked away by Mistress Cutler , the tavern owner, who scolds Lyddie for her messy appearance.
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Mistress Cutler immediately sends Lyddie to work in the kitchen with the cook, Triphena. The kitchen alone...
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Though Mistress Cutler provides Lyddie with hearty meals and a new outfit, Lyddie still resents her new employment...
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Chapter 5
In April, Mistress Cutler decides to sell some of the Cutler farm’s goods in Boston, and she leaves for...
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Chapter 6
When Lyddie arrives back at Cutler’s tavern, Mistress Cutler has returned—and, furious, she fires Lyddie for taking a trip. But Lyddie sees this firing...
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