Sharon is Billy’s girlfriend who is pregnant with his child when Billy dies serving in the army. Billy beat her, but she still felt loyal to him and wanted to change him. Sharon and Rent Boy have sex in the bathroom at Billy’s funeral, and while Rent Boy initially enjoys doing something taboo, he is later horrified at the thought that he might not be as different from his brother as he thought.
Sharon Quotes in Trainspotting
The Trainspotting quotes below are all either spoken by Sharon or refer to Sharon . 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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Sharon Character Timeline in Trainspotting
The timeline below shows where the character Sharon appears in Trainspotting. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Blowing It
...Boy off and don’t come inside. Inside, Rent Boy’s mother is talking with Billy’s woman, Sharon, who’s pregnant.
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...sake. Rent Boy steps aside to go to the bathroom and happens to run into Sharon, who’s very drunk. Rent Boy tells her he needs to have a conversation with her...
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Someone knocks on the bathroom door, temporarily interrupting Rent Boy and Sharon, but Rent Boy says Sharon has just had too much to drink and he’s helping...
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...finally opens the door. He doesn’t like the mood at the house, so he takes Sharon back to his apartment. Sharon talks about how Billy beat her multiple times and generally...
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