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Ahjuhma/The Woman
Sherrie Chin-Watt is a Chinese American woman who runs PR for John Kwang’s political organization. She’s married to a successful businessman, but he’s seemingly always away on business, and she appears to have devoted herself to Kwang’s campaign. As Henry gets closer to Kwang, he realizes that the councilman is having an extramarital affair with Sherrie, though Sherrie later distances herself from him when he suddenly becomes engulfed in scandal.
Sherrie Chin-Watt Quotes in Native Speaker
The Native Speaker quotes below are all either spoken by Sherrie Chin-Watt or refer to Sherrie Chin-Watt. 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 12 Quotes
I have always known that moment of disappearance, and the even uglier truth is that I have long treasured it. That always honorable-seeming absence. It appears I can go anywhere I wish. Is this my assimilation, so many years in the making? Is this the long-sought sweetness?
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Sherrie Chin-Watt Character Timeline in Native Speaker
The timeline below shows where the character Sherrie Chin-Watt appears in Native Speaker. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 3
Henry will primarily work for Kwang’s head of PR, Sherrie Chin-Watt. Sherrie is a Chinese American lawyer in what seems to be an unhappy marriage...
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Chapter 12
Sherrie Chin-Watt arrives and sits with Kwang and Henry at the table. Henry instinctively falls quiet...
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Chapter 16
Henry goes to the bombed-out Kwang office the next day. Janice and Sherrie are there, both of them desperately trying to keep things in order as investigators pick...
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After talking to Jack, Henry returns to the office, where Sherrie tells him that Kwang’s entire operation—the whole team—will be moving to Kwang’s house. She also...
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Chapter 17
...what happened, there’s no denying that Kwang has been deeply impacted on an emotional level. Sherrie is worried about how he’s responding to the disaster—the fact that he hasn’t made a...
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Chapter 19
...they make their way into Manhattan, Kwang gives Henry an address and explains that it’s Sherrie’s. Henry doesn’t respond, but he obediently drives Kwang to see Sherrie, who eventually comes out...
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With Sherrie in the car, Kwang directs Henry to a Korean night club. Henry knows that at...
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...waitress touches and massages Henry, Kwang comments on how formal and uncomfortable he looks. Finally, Sherrie tells Kwang to stop, saying, “John, he’s not Eddy. He doesn’t like it.” But Kwang...
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...for getting in his way. They stop fighting, and Kwang downs another drink, claiming that Sherrie is the one hurting him. Everyone, he says, is against him and doesn’t understand what...
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