The Bath

by

Janet Frame

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The Niece Character Analysis

The woman’s niece appears to be one of her only living relatives, and she visits once in a while to help the woman with her daily tasks. But the woman does not seem to find any pleasure or comfort in this. In fact, the only time the woman reflects on her niece at length, it’s quite negative—she remembers feeling loathed and judged by her niece because she was not physically able to look at the beautiful clouds while they were doing laundry. This shows how being around people who don’t understand her can actually make the woman feel lonelier than she was before.

The Niece Quotes in The Bath

The The Bath quotes below are all either spoken by The Niece or refer to The Niece. 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:
Loneliness and Death Theme Icon
).
The Bath Quotes

She remembered with a sense of the world narrowing and growing darker, like a tunnel, the incredulous almost despising look on the face of her niece when in answer to the comment ‘How beautiful the clouds are in Dunedin! These big billowing white and grey clouds - don't you think, Auntie?’

She had said, her disappointment at the misery of things putting a sharpness in her voice, ‘I never look at the clouds!’

Related Characters: The Woman, The Niece
Page Number: 320
Explanation and Analysis:
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The Niece Quotes in The Bath

The The Bath quotes below are all either spoken by The Niece or refer to The Niece. 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:
Loneliness and Death Theme Icon
).
The Bath Quotes

She remembered with a sense of the world narrowing and growing darker, like a tunnel, the incredulous almost despising look on the face of her niece when in answer to the comment ‘How beautiful the clouds are in Dunedin! These big billowing white and grey clouds - don't you think, Auntie?’

She had said, her disappointment at the misery of things putting a sharpness in her voice, ‘I never look at the clouds!’

Related Characters: The Woman, The Niece
Page Number: 320
Explanation and Analysis: