A twenty-seven-year-old clerk at Winney’s Dry Goods Store. When Alice was a teenager, she had a passionate love affair with a man named Ned Currie who promised to stay with her forever. Ned eventually moves to Cleveland (and later Chicago) to pursue his career and at first writes Alice almost daily, but soon forgets about her and his life in Winesburg. Alice is crushed and never able to move on from Ned or find meaning in her life without him. She convinces herself that she is one of many people who is destined to “live and die alone.”
Alice Hindman Quotes in Winesburg, Ohio
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“What is the matter with me? I will do something dreadful if I am not careful,” she thought, and turning her face to the wall, began trying to force herself to face bravely the fact that many people must live and die alone, even in Winesburg.
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Alice Hindman Quotes in Winesburg, Ohio
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12. Adventure
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“What is the matter with me? I will do something dreadful if I am not careful,” she thought, and turning her face to the wall, began trying to force herself to face bravely the fact that many people must live and die alone, even in Winesburg.
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