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Officer Kennedy offers to walk Lavinia through the ravine at night, but she refuses. Later, when Lavinia thinks she sees a man on the bridge in the ravine, she calls for Officer Kennedy to help her, but he doesn’t hear. Officer Kennedy is one of several characters who caution Lavinia to be careful, but Lavinia dismisses him.
Officer Kennedy Quotes in The Whole Town’s Sleeping
The The Whole Town’s Sleeping quotes below are all either spoken by Officer Kennedy or refer to Officer Kennedy . 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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The Whole Town’s Sleeping Quotes
The ravine was deep, black and black, black! And the world was gone behind, the world of safe people in bed, the locked doors, the town, the drugstore, the theater, the lights, everything was gone. Only the ravine existed and lived, black and huge, about her.
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After encountering Officer Kennedy on the streets and refusing his offer to accompany her home, Lavinia begins descending the staircase into the ravine. She is utterly alone and exposed now, with everyone else in the town safely locked inside their homes. Lavinia is beginning to realize that perhaps she made the wrong choice and has acted recklessly: staying home, locked in her private space like her neighbors, would have kept her safe. The repetition and imagery in this passage personifies the ravine, casting it as a menacing predator. Lavinia is figuratively swallowed inside of it, with everything else falling away. 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. Possi
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Officer Kennedy Character Timeline in The Whole Town’s Sleeping
The timeline below shows where the character Officer Kennedy appears in The Whole Town’s Sleeping. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
The Whole Town’s Sleeping
...alone. She hears a man singing and gets nervous, but it turns out it’s only Officer Kennedy on his patrol. He offers to accompany her through the ravine, but she refuses. He...
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