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George Turrell is Helen’s brother, who at the outset of the story, has recently died in India of a fall from a horse. Helen concocts the story of Michael’s illegitimate birth around George, suggesting that Michael is actually the son of George’s lower-class mistress in India, and that George has always been a person who acts in unconventional and unrespectable ways.
George Turrell Quotes in The Gardener
The The Gardener quotes below are all either spoken by George Turrell or refer to George Turrell. 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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Everyone in the village knew that Helen Turrell did her duty by all her world, and by none more honorably than by her only brother’s unfortunate child. The village knew, too, that George Turrell had tried his family severely since early youth, and […] after many fresh starts given and thrown away, he […] had entangled himself with the daughter of a retired non-commissioned officer, and had died […] a few weeks before his child was born.
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The narrator begins the story by summarizing one of the central elements of the plot: the idea that Helen Turrell is “honorably” raising a child, Michael, who is not her own but is the illegitimate child of her brother, George, and an Indian girl. Throughout the course of the story, the reader learns that Michael is, in fact, Helen’s illegitimate son and that the story about her brother has been fabricated to protect her reputation. The fact that “everyone in the village” knows that Helen does “her duty” and behaves “honorably” is intended ironically as Helen’s conduct, in having sex Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus quo. Non inventore in. Eligendi atque placeat. Molestiae earum eum. Libero sit beatae. At a deserunt. Sint aperiam consequatur. Minima porro perferendis. Sit neque odit. Tenetur qui dignissimos. Qui et ut. Voluptate labo
All these details were public property, for Helen was as open as the day, and held that scandals are only increased by hushing them up. She admitted that George had always been rather a black sheep, but that things might have been much worse if the mother had insisted on her right to keep the boy. Luckily, it seemed that people of that class would do almost anything for money.
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Helen projects an image of herself as an “open” woman by making the details of her life “public property.” This is intended ironically because the story that Helen uses to explain her relationship with Michael is a lie. Helen’s presentation of herself as a woman who wants nothing to do with “scandals” is an attempt to deflect criticism of herself and her story. By being “open” about this falsely constructed past, Helen is able—on a surface level, at least—to win over the people in her community by appearing to uphold social conventions. Helen expands upon her story about her brother’s Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus quo. Non inventore in. Eligendi atque placeat. Molestiae earum eum. Libero sit beatae. At a deserunt. Sint aperiam consequatur. Minima porro perfe
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George Turrell Character Timeline in The Gardener
The timeline below shows where the character George Turrell appears in The Gardener. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
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...Turrell’s community believes that she has done “her duty by all the world.” Her brother, George Turrell, has always been a trouble maker, so no one is surprised to learn that...
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...she doesn’t particularly like children, she will raise Michael out of her deep love for George.
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