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Mr. Doyle
Mrs. Doyle reaches out to Miss Lonelyhearts via a letter in which she asks to meet face-to-face and discuss her failed marriage to Mr. Doyle. Miss Lonelyhearts then invites Mrs. Doyle to his apartment, where they have sex and she confides in him about difficulties in her life, including how she regrets marrying her husband. Later in the novella, Miss Lonelyhearts has dinner with the Doyles, during which Mrs. Doyle flirts with him in front of her husband. When Mrs. Doyle and Miss Lonelyhearts are alone, she makes an advance on him, and he lashes out, beating her violently.
Mrs. Doyle Quotes in Miss Lonelyhearts
The Miss Lonelyhearts quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Doyle or refer to Mrs. Doyle. 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 7 Quotes
He had always been the pursuer, but now found a strange pleasure in having the rôles reversed. He drew back when she reached for a kiss. She caught his head and kissed him on his mouth. At first it ticked like a watch, then the tick softened and thickened into a heart throb. It beat louder and more rapidly each second until he thought it was going to explode.
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Chapter 12 Quotes
He could feel her knee pressing his under the table, but he paid no attention and only broke his beatific smile to drink. The heavy food had dulled him and he was trying desperately to feel again what he had felt while holding hands with the cripple in the speakeasy.
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He tried again by becoming hysterical. “Christ is love,” he screamed at them. It was a stage scream, but he kept on. “Christ is the black fruit that hangs on the crosstree. Man was lost by eating of the forbidden fruit. He shall be saved by eating of the bidden fruit. The black Christ-fruit, the love fruit…”
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Chapter 13 Quotes
Miss Lonelyhearts stood it with the utmost serenity; he was not even interested. What goes on in the sea is of no interest to the rock.
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Mrs. Doyle Character Timeline in Miss Lonelyhearts
The timeline below shows where the character Mrs. Doyle appears in Miss Lonelyhearts. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 7
The next day, Miss Lonelyhearts receives a letter from Mrs. Doyle , who writes that someone pointed him out to her at Delehanty’s speakeasy, and she’d...
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At Miss Lonelyhearts’s apartment, he and Mrs. Doyle sit on his bed together. Mrs. Doyle initiates a kiss, and they have sex. Afterward,...
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Chapter 8
Following his time with Mrs. Doyle , Miss Lonelyhearts becomes physically sick and can’t leave his bed for three days. On...
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Chapter 12
Miss Lonelyhearts and Mr. Doyle return to Mr. Doyle’s home together, where Mrs. Doyle greets them. Although she admonishes her husband for returning drunk, she puts dinner on the...
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Chapter 13
...he left behind: an angered Mr. Doyle promises Miss Lonelyhearts that he’ll avenge the injured Mrs. Doyle , who said that Miss Lonelyhearts tried to rape her.
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