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Zelda Kashpaw
King’s wife and Howard’s mother. Lynette is a white woman, and King’s Aunt Zelda constantly criticizes and shames her for everything, from the color of her skin to her preference for disposable diapers. King is a violent and cruel husband, both verbally and physically, and Lynette frequently wears the welts and bruises of his abuse. Lynette’s character is another example of violence against women in the novel, and like the other women, Lynette manages to stay strong in the face of abuse and oppression. She subtly insults King during casual conversations and keeps their dark apartment from being too depressing by decorating with brightly colored pictures and thriving house plants. Despite the obvious power and oppression King holds over Lynette, she still manages to exert some power of her own, even if only in small ways.
Lynette Kashpaw Quotes in Love Medicine
The Love Medicine quotes below are all either spoken by Lynette Kashpaw or refer to Lynette Kashpaw. 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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The World’s Greatest Fisherman Part 2
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Far from home, living in a white woman’s basement, that letter made me feel buried, too. I opened the envelope and read the words. I was sitting at my linoleum table with my textbook spread out to the section on “Patient Abuse.” There were two ways you could think of that title. One was obvious to a nursing student, and the other was obvious to a Kashpaw. Between my mother and myself the abuse was slow and tedious, requiring long periods of dormancy, living in the blood like hepatitis. When it broke out it was almost a relief.
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Lynette Kashpaw Quotes in Love Medicine
The Love Medicine quotes below are all either spoken by Lynette Kashpaw or refer to Lynette Kashpaw. 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:
).
The World’s Greatest Fisherman Part 2
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Far from home, living in a white woman’s basement, that letter made me feel buried, too. I opened the envelope and read the words. I was sitting at my linoleum table with my textbook spread out to the section on “Patient Abuse.” There were two ways you could think of that title. One was obvious to a nursing student, and the other was obvious to a Kashpaw. Between my mother and myself the abuse was slow and tedious, requiring long periods of dormancy, living in the blood like hepatitis. When it broke out it was almost a relief.
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