Quotes organised by theme comparatively for the two texts Mrs Dalloway and Their Eyes Were Watching God. Extremely useful in developing and creating points of argument for essays, and finding similarities and difference between the characters in the context of women in literature.
time
- their eyes: ‘Time makes everything old so the kissing, young darkness became a
monstropolous old thing while Janie talked.’ p9
- their eyes: ‘Waiting for the world to be made.’
- their eyes: ‘So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange time.’
marriage/love
- their eyes: ‘So this was a marriage!’ p13
- their eyes: ‘But anyhow Janie went on inside to wait for love to begin.’
- their eyes: “Cause you told me Ah mus gointer love him, and, and Ah don’t. Maybe if
somebody was to tell me how, Ah could do it. [...] Ah wants to want him sometimes.
Ah don’t want him to do all de wantin’.”
- their eyes: ‘The bed was no longer a daisy-field for her and Joe to play in. It was a
place where she went and laid down when she was sleepy and tired.’
- their eyes: “Ah jus’ loves dis freedom.” (Pheoby responds: “Sh-sh-sh! Don’t let
nobody hear you say dat, Janie. Folks will say you ain’t sorry he’s gone.”) p106
- their eyes: “Things lak dat got uh whole lot tuh do wid convenience, but it ain’t got
nothin’ tuh do wid love.” p120
- their eyes: “[Marriage] always changes folks, and sometimes it brings out dirt and
meanness dat even de person didn’t know they had in ‘em theyselves.” p129
- mrs dalloway: ‘For in marriage a little licence, a little independence there must be.’ p8
- mrs dalloway: ‘To love makes one solitary.’ p25
- mrs dalloway: ‘Had not that, after all, been love?’ p35
- mrs dalloway: ‘they spoke of marriage always as a catastrophe.’ p37
- mrs dalloway: ‘there’s nothing so bad for some women as marriage.’ p44
- mrs dalloway: ‘Everyone gives up something when they marry.’ p72
- mrs dalloway: ‘She would marry when it suited her to marry.’ p 79
- mrs dalloway: ‘One of the tragedies of married life.’ p84
ideas about gender
- their eyes: “so it wasn’t for me to fulfill my dreams of whut a woman oughta be and to
do.”
- their eyes: “Uh woman by herself is uh pitiful thing [...] Dey needs aid and assistance.
God never meant ‘em tuh try stand by theirselves.” p102-3
- their eyes: “You better sense her intuh things [...] Throwin’ away whut Joe Starks
worked hard tuh git tuhgether.”
- mrs dalloway: ‘Women live much more in the past than we do.’ p60
- mrs dalloway: ‘That woman’s gift, of making a world of her own wherever she
happened to be.’ p83
- mrs dalloway: ‘Interested in politics like a man.’
- mrs dalloway: “My dear, you ladies are all alike.” p184
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