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Hawthorne Abendsen
The pretty, protective wife of Hawthorne Abendsen, Caroline is Juliana’s primary point of contact for her visit. She is a little resentful of Juliana (whom Hawthorne is clearly attracted to), but she is also frustrated with Juliana for forcing her husband to confront the deeper “truth” that undergirds The Grasshopper Lies Heavy.
Caroline Abendsen Quotes in The Man in the High Castle
The The Man in the High Castle quotes below are all either spoken by Caroline Abendsen or refer to Caroline Abendsen. 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 15 Quotes
Truth, [Juliana] thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find. I’m lucky.
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Caroline Abendsen Character Timeline in The Man in the High Castle
The timeline below shows where the character Caroline Abendsen appears in The Man in the High Castle. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 13
Juliana places a call from a phone booth, and she gets through to Abendsen’s wife. Mrs. Abendsen tells Juliana that it is too late right now for a visit, but she encourages...
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Juliana explains her urgency to Mrs. Abendsen by reading her the oracle’s prophecy. This gets through to Mrs. Abendsen, who asks for...
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Chapter 15
...knocks on the door, and a teenaged boy—the Abendsens’ son—lets her in. A pretty woman, Caroline Abendsen herself, welcomes Juliana and introduces to her husband. Hawthorne Abendsen is tall, dressed in...
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...to appear so beautiful to the “technical secrets” that allow him to write so skillfully. Caroline Abendsen grows frustrated with this flirtation.
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...Lies Heavy, but she refuses. Abendsen speculates that Juliana is a kind of “daemon,” and Caroline comforts him, saying that Juliana is “terribly disruptive”; Abendsen merely replies, “so is reality.” He...
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Caroline asks Juliana what she will do next. Juliana considers going back to Frank Frink, but...
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