The Moviegoer

The Moviegoer

by

Walker Percy

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Sharon Kincaid Character Analysis

Sharon is Binx’s current secretary, originally from rural Alabama. Binx quickly falls in love with her, as he does with all of his secretaries. She is a fast learner, competent in her work, and firmly draws the line whenever Binx flirts with her. However, she goes along on a Gulf Coast getaway with Binx and doesn’t mind kissing and teasing him on the beach, even though it later turns out that she’s engaged to someone else. She ends up taking over Binx’s branch office when he leaves for medical school.

Sharon Kincaid Quotes in The Moviegoer

The The Moviegoer quotes below are all either spoken by Sharon Kincaid or refer to Sharon Kincaid. 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:
Value Systems Theme Icon
).
Chapter 3, Section 1 Quotes

Joy and sadness come by turns, I know now. Beauty and bravery make you sad […] and victory breaks your heart. But life goes on and on we go, spinning along the coast in a violet light […] We pull into a bay and have a drink under the stars. It is not a bad thing to settle for the Little Way, not the big search for the big happiness but the sad little happiness of drinks and kisses, a good little car and a warm deep thigh.

Related Characters: Binx Bolling (John “Jack” Bickerson Bolling) (speaker), Sharon Kincaid
Related Symbols: Cars, Buses, Streetcars, and Trains
Page Number: 135
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 3, Section 2 Quotes

A good night: Lonnie happy (he looks around at me with the liveliest sense of the secret between us; the secret is that Sharon is not and never will be onto the little touches we see in the movie and, in the seeing, know that the other sees […]), this ghost of a theater, a warm Southern night, the Western Desert and this fine big sweet piece Sharon.

Related Characters: Binx Bolling (John “Jack” Bickerson Bolling) (speaker), Lonnie Smith, Sharon Kincaid
Related Symbols: Movies
Page Number: 143
Explanation and Analysis:
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Sharon Kincaid Quotes in The Moviegoer

The The Moviegoer quotes below are all either spoken by Sharon Kincaid or refer to Sharon Kincaid. 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:
Value Systems Theme Icon
).
Chapter 3, Section 1 Quotes

Joy and sadness come by turns, I know now. Beauty and bravery make you sad […] and victory breaks your heart. But life goes on and on we go, spinning along the coast in a violet light […] We pull into a bay and have a drink under the stars. It is not a bad thing to settle for the Little Way, not the big search for the big happiness but the sad little happiness of drinks and kisses, a good little car and a warm deep thigh.

Related Characters: Binx Bolling (John “Jack” Bickerson Bolling) (speaker), Sharon Kincaid
Related Symbols: Cars, Buses, Streetcars, and Trains
Page Number: 135
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 3, Section 2 Quotes

A good night: Lonnie happy (he looks around at me with the liveliest sense of the secret between us; the secret is that Sharon is not and never will be onto the little touches we see in the movie and, in the seeing, know that the other sees […]), this ghost of a theater, a warm Southern night, the Western Desert and this fine big sweet piece Sharon.

Related Characters: Binx Bolling (John “Jack” Bickerson Bolling) (speaker), Lonnie Smith, Sharon Kincaid
Related Symbols: Movies
Page Number: 143
Explanation and Analysis: