Miss Marriot is Isaiah the church gardener’s racist white supervisor. Her condescension and disrespect toward Isaiah—for example, she calls him a “naughty boy” even though he is elderly—indicate that while apartheid harms Black South Africans’ lives even when they are not experiencing direct interpersonal racism, direct interpersonal racism also characterizes Black-white social relations in the novel.
Miss Marriot Quotes in Tsotsi
The Tsotsi quotes below are all either spoken by Miss Marriot or refer to Miss Marriot. 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 12
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To an incredible extent a peaceful existence was dependent upon knowing just when to say no or yes to the white man.
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Miss Marriot Quotes in Tsotsi
The Tsotsi quotes below are all either spoken by Miss Marriot or refer to Miss Marriot. 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:
).
Chapter 12
Quotes
To an incredible extent a peaceful existence was dependent upon knowing just when to say no or yes to the white man.
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