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Conchetta was Mr. Pignati’s wife. She died sometime before the events of the story take place, and Mr. Pignati is still grieving her—so much so that he can hardly confront her death directly. When John and Lorraine first meet Mr. Pignati, for instance, he claims that Conchetta is away visiting relatives. Unlike John’s and Lorraine’s parents, Mr. Pignati and Conchetta really seemed to love each other and make each other happy. Mr. Pignati associates Conchetta with his beloved pig collection, so when Norton Kelly destroys the pigs during a party John organizes that gets out of hand, it crushes Mr. Pignati.
Conchetta Pignati Quotes in The Pigman
The The Pigman quotes below are all either spoken by Conchetta Pignati or refer to Conchetta Pignati. 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 5 Quotes
“How long has she been gone?” Lorraine asked, trying to be kind, in that English accent of hers.
“She’s been out there about a month now.”
For a moment he looked as though he was going to cry, and then suddenly he changed the subject. Lorraine’s nervous radar was in full operation, and I could tell it made her sad to look at the old man.
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Chapter 13 Quotes
Several other broken pigs were laying all over the floor, and the only thing I could think of at that moment was the proud and happy look on Mr. Pignati’s face when he had shown us the pigs that first day.
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Conchetta Pignati Character Timeline in The Pigman
The timeline below shows where the character Conchetta Pignati appears in The Pigman. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 4
...Lorraine nervously pretended she was Miss Truman from the Howard Avenue Charities. Mr. Pignati said his wife wasn’t home. Lorraine, putting on a false British accent, insisted she wanted to speak with...
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Mr. Pignati kept talking about his wife (using the past tense), telling Lorraine jokes his wife liked. Something about his tone made...
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Chapter 5
...Lorraine that he just got back from the zoo. He used to go there with his wife , but she’s in California visiting her sister. That’s why his house is so cluttered—when...
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...over the world—Japan, Austria, Germany. They’re all kinds of colors, too. Mr. Pignati explains that his wife has collected pigs ever since he bought her her first pig. “Pig. Pignati. Do you...
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Chapter 7
...Mr. Pignati stops smiling. He pauses a moment and then explains that it’s his wife, Conchetta. It was the only photo she liked of herself. Then he gets up, looking as...
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...California. Finally, John finds a bill from the Silver Lake funeral home—for the funeral of Conchetta Pignati.
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Chapter 8
...tells Lorraine about the funeral bill, and a chill runs down her spine—she’d suspected that Conchetta might not really be on vacation, since Mr. Pignati looks like he’s about to cry...
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Lorraine returns home that night and thinks about everything Mr. Pignati and Conchetta must have shared together. They must have prepared meals together. Lorraine has heard that good...
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Chapter 10
When Mr. Pignati finally speaks, he mutters something about Conchetta always keeping the house so clean. John and Lorraine look at each other—it’s the first...
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Chapter 11
...Lorraine’s sensuous voice coming from the stairs. John turns and sees Lorraine wearing one of Conchetta’s old white dresses that has an exceedingly low neckline. John says Lorraine looks amazing. Then...
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Chapter 13
...when she sees Norton, but eventually she and Helen Kazinski head upstairs to change into Conchetta’s clothing. The girls come back downstairs after a short while. Helen looks ridiculous, but John...
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...went upstairs. John runs upstairs, encountering Deanna Deas and Janice Dickery, who are dressed in Conchetta’s clothes, on their way back downstairs. John is in a panic by this point, somehow...
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Chapter 14
...is okay. The last she saw of Mr. Pignati, he was carrying the dress of Conchetta’s that Helen Kazinski had ripped, and Lorraine didn’t know what to say to him. She...
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...police car, Lorraine fears what Lorraine’s mother will say when she sees Lorraine dressed in Conchetta’s white dress—Lorraine couldn’t find her own clothes. One of the police officers asks if it’s...
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...She wonders if Mr. Pignati will think that she and John destroyed the pigs and Conchetta’s clothes on purpose. “We were just playing,” she thinks. And then she can’t get the...
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