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Mrs. Horrocks, who works in the filing department, is among the employees the Narrator must fire. Mrs. Horrocks primarily serves as a foil for Singlebury. Unlike Singlebury, who receives his notice without complaint, Mrs. Horrocks resists, inquiring into severance pay. Similarly, while Singlebury quietly disappears after his last day, Mrs. Horrocks continues to call and visit the office repeatedly despite no longer working there.
Mrs. Horrocks Quotes in The Axe
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Meanwhile Singlebury’s desk had not been cleared—that is, of the trays, pencil-sharpener and complimentary calendar which were, of course, office property. The feeling that he would come back—not like Mrs. Horrocks, who has rung up and called round incessantly—but simply come back to work out of habit and through not knowing what else to do, was very strong, without being openly mentioned. I myself half expected and dreaded it […]. Nothing happened, however, and on Thursday I personally removed the ‘things’ from the cubby-hole into my own room.
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Mrs. Horrocks Quotes in The Axe
The The Axe quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Horrocks or refer to Mrs. Horrocks. 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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Meanwhile Singlebury’s desk had not been cleared—that is, of the trays, pencil-sharpener and complimentary calendar which were, of course, office property. The feeling that he would come back—not like Mrs. Horrocks, who has rung up and called round incessantly—but simply come back to work out of habit and through not knowing what else to do, was very strong, without being openly mentioned. I myself half expected and dreaded it […]. Nothing happened, however, and on Thursday I personally removed the ‘things’ from the cubby-hole into my own room.
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