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Mrs. Kehoe
Georgina is an elegant British woman who bunks with Eilis on the ocean liner to America. When she first arrives, she forces Eilis to take the top bunk instead of the bottom. She then sneaks into the first class lounge and somehow spends the night in first class while Eilis throws up from seasickness. The next morning, however, she tells Eilis that she has been kicked out of first class and will have to spend the night in their small cabin—a night, she says, that they will both spend vomiting, since they’re in the middle of a storm that won’t pass for at least another day and night. Thankfully, though, she helps Eilis pick the lock of the bathroom that they’re forced to share with another cabin (a bathroom that the other passengers locked the previous night). She also assures Eilis that, though her seasickness will continue, it will stop when the boat reaches calm waters. She knows this because she travels on ocean liners once a year to visit her mother in England. For the rest of the voyage, she teaches Eilis how to pass immigration customs when they arrive in America.
Georgina Quotes in Brooklyn
The Brooklyn quotes below are all either spoken by Georgina or refer to Georgina. 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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As her stomach began dry heaves, she realized that she would never be able to tell anyone how sick she felt. She pictured her mother standing at the door waving as the car took her and Rose to the railway station, the expression on her mother’s face strained and worried, managing a final smile when the car turned down Friary Hill. What was happening now, she hoped, was something that her mother had never even imagined. If it had been somehow easier, just rocking back and forth, then she might have been able to convince herself that it was a dream, or it would not last, but every moment of it was absolutely real, totally solid and part of her waking life, as was the foul taste in her mouth and the grinding of the engines and the heat that seemed to be increasing as the night wore on.
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Georgina Quotes in Brooklyn
The Brooklyn quotes below are all either spoken by Georgina or refer to Georgina. 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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As her stomach began dry heaves, she realized that she would never be able to tell anyone how sick she felt. She pictured her mother standing at the door waving as the car took her and Rose to the railway station, the expression on her mother’s face strained and worried, managing a final smile when the car turned down Friary Hill. What was happening now, she hoped, was something that her mother had never even imagined. If it had been somehow easier, just rocking back and forth, then she might have been able to convince herself that it was a dream, or it would not last, but every moment of it was absolutely real, totally solid and part of her waking life, as was the foul taste in her mouth and the grinding of the engines and the heat that seemed to be increasing as the night wore on.
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