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Angie
Kit is a twelve-year-old girl who is a friend and neighbor of Angie’s. Though Kit is young, she is cruel and aggressive, and spars verbally and physically with Angie. Kit seems to feel coerced into her friendship with Angie, and tells Angie to her face that she is odd for wanting to hang out with someone four years her junior, and a bad influence to boot. Nevertheless, Kit seems to be very much in Angie’s thrall, and when Joyce attempts to speak ill of Angie to Kit, Kit declares that she loves Angie.
Kit Quotes in Top Girls
The Top Girls quotes below are all either spoken by Kit or refer to Kit. 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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Act One, Scene Three Quotes
ANGIE: I’m going to London. To see my aunt.
KIT: And what?
ANGIE: That’s it.
KIT: I see my aunt all the time.
ANGIE: I don’t see my aunt.
KIT: What’s so special?
ANGIE: It is special. She’s special.
KIT: Why?
ANGIE: She is.
KIT: Why?
ANGIE: She is.
KIT: Why?
ANGIE: My mother hates her.
KIT: Why?
ANGIE: Because she does.
KIT: Perhaps she’s not very nice.
ANGIE: She is nice.
KIT: How do you know?
ANGIE: Because I know her.
KIT: You said you never see her.
ANGIE: I saw her last year. You saw her.
KIT: Did I?
ANGIE: Never mind.
KIT: I remember her. That aunt. What’s so special?
ANGIE: She gets people jobs.
KIT: What’s so special?
ANGIE: I think I’m my aunt’s child. I think my mother’s really my aunt.
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In this passage, Kit and Angie are hiding out in a shed made of junk in Angie’s backyard. Angie’s mother, Joyce, has been calling for the girls, but they have shut themselves up in the shed and refuse to come inside. They have a close but strange friendship—the girls insult each other and call each other terrible names, but clearly have a deep affection for one another. Angie has, over the course of this scene, revealed to Kit that she has a desire to kill her mother—in this passage, she confesses that she is unsure of who her mother truly 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
Act Two, Scene Two Quotes
JOYCE: [Kit’s] a little girl Angie sometimes plays with because she’s the only child lives really close. She’s like a little sister to her really. Angie’s good with little children.
MARLENE: Do you want to work with children, Angie? Be a teacher or nursery nurse?
JOYCE: I don’t think she’s ever thought of it.
MARLENE: What do you want to do?
JOYCE: She hasn’t got an idea in her head what she wants to do. Lucky to get anything.
JOYCE: True enough.
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In this passage, Joyce reveals that Angie is good with children. Rather than admiring this as a nice trait or simply being excited to learn something new about her “niece,” Marlene immediately jumps down Angie’s throat, seeking to see if Angie has thought about how this benign, unremarkable personality trait could be monetized or turned into a way to make herself of value in the workforce. Joyce replies for Angie, stating that she hasn’t “an idea in her head” about what she wants to do. This is both a criticism of Angie’s unfocused nature and a criticism of Marlene’s worldview—Angie 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 occae
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Kit Character Timeline in Top Girls
The timeline below shows where the character Kit appears in Top Girls. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Act One, Scene Three
In Marlene’s sister Joyce’s backyard, two girls—Angie, who is sixteen, and Kit, who is twelve—play in a “shelter made of junk.” The girls hear Joyce calling for...
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...calls for Angie, telling her to come inside. Angie doesn’t answer, or move. She tells Kit that last night, while she was lying in bed, a picture of her grandmother fell...
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Angie demands that when she gets her own period, Kit must lick her bloody fingers, too. Kit refuses. Angie tells Kit that if she doesn’t...
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Kit asks Angie where the safest place is during a war. Angie tells her nowhere is...
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Angie twists Kit’s arm and tells her to admit she’s a liar. Kit refuses, and Angie lets her...
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...sit in silence. Joyce comes out of the house and approaches the shed. She tells Kit that it’s time to go home. Kit protests that they want to go see a...
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...dress on just to clean her room. Angie picks up a brick from the ground. Kit tells Angie it’s time to go to the movies. Joyce insists Angie finish cleaning her...
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Act Two, Scene Two
Kit walks into the house “as if she lives there,” inserting herself right into the action....
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...party, and recalls to herself that her own mother and father were there, along with Kit. Marlene asks where Angie’s father is, and Joyce replies that he moved out three years...
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