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Lena Logan
Another friend of Isabel’s who is invited with Lena Logan to see the doll’s house first. She starts the cruel whisper about Lil Kelvey at lunch one day, whispering to Isabel, “Lil Kelvey’s going to be a servant when she grows up.” This leads to Lena approaching the Kelveys and hissing, “Yah, yer father’s in prison!” to insult them.
Emmie Cole Quotes in The Doll’s House
The The Doll’s House quotes below are all either spoken by Emmie Cole or refer to Emmie Cole. 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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The Doll’s House Quotes
Emmie Cole started the whisper.
“Lil Kelvey’s going to be a servant when she grows up.”
“O-oh, how awful!” said Isabel Burnell, and she made eyes at Emmie.
Emmie swallowed in a very meaning way and nodded to Isabel as she’d seen her mother do on those occasions.
“It’s true—it’s true—it’s true,” she said.
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After all the girls at school have seen the doll’s house, and there is little more to say about it at lunch, they start picking on the Kelveys. This may be more out of boredom than anything else, yet further underscores the girls’ desire to align themselves with the Burnells by ostracizing the Kelveys. Mansfield also subtly suggests that the girls are not naturally inclined to be cruel to the Kelveys; Emmie’s gestures are not natural, but affectations and habits she has picked up by watching her mother gossip. Class prejudice and cruelty are not innate, then, but rather are Dolorem et quae. Ex
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Emmie Cole Character Timeline in The Doll’s House
The timeline below shows where the character Emmie Cole appears in The Doll’s House. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
The Doll’s House
...out who Isabel will choose to see the house first. She picks Lena Logan and Emmie Cole .
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...house. Bored of talking about the house, the girls begin gossiping about the Kelveys instead. Emmie Cole starts it, whispering to Isabel that Lil will grow up to be a washerwoman just...
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