Veronica’s mother, Sarah Ford is a housewife in Kent where she lives with her family. Tony remembers her as a carefree, easily laughing woman, who warns him not to let her daughter take advantage of him. She turns out to be far more enigmatic than that: Sarah Ford ends up sleeping with her daughter’s new boyfriend, Adrian, and has a child by him. Her motives and mental state remain hidden throughout the novel, as well as the real reasons she left Adrian’s diary and five hundred pounds to Tony. Perhaps, it’s implied, she felt trapped by her situation; perhaps she wanted Tony to know the truth and to feel responsibility; it’s possible that she is also the greatest manipulator and deceiver in the novel.
Mrs. Sarah Ford Quotes in The Sense of an Ending
The The Sense of an Ending quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Sarah Ford or refer to Mrs. Sarah Ford . 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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I looked at the chain of responsibility. I saw my initial in there. I remembered that in my ugly letter I had urged Adrian to consult Veronica’s mother. I replayed the words that would forever haunt me. As would Adrian’s unfinished sentence, “So, for instance, if Tony…”
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Mrs. Sarah Ford Quotes in The Sense of an Ending
The The Sense of an Ending quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Sarah Ford or refer to Mrs. Sarah Ford . 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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I looked at the chain of responsibility. I saw my initial in there. I remembered that in my ugly letter I had urged Adrian to consult Veronica’s mother. I replayed the words that would forever haunt me. As would Adrian’s unfinished sentence, “So, for instance, if Tony…”
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