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Will and Jim’s seventh-grade teacher and Robert’s aunt. Miss Foley is described as “a little woman lost somewhere in her gray fifties,” and she “loves carnivals.” Miss Foley is terrified after she walks through the carnival’s Mirror Maze and sees herself reflected as a child, but this doesn’t stop her from wanting to ride the carnival’s carousel. Like Charles, Miss Foley struggles with her age and longs for youth, and she ever refers to herself as an “old fish.” Miss Foley disappears, just like Mr. Crosetti and Mr. Fury, and Bradbury implies that she has taken a ride on the carousel. Will and Jim find a scared and abandoned young girl who knows the boys by name, and whom Will believes to be Miss Foley, but this is never confirmed. When Will and Jim return to the place where they found the young girl, she is nowhere to be found, and Charles theorizes that she has become one of Mr. Dark’s freaks.
Miss Foley / Aunt Willa Quotes in Something Wicked This Way Comes
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Chapter 25
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Miss Foley had first noticed, some years ago, that her house was crowded with bright shadows of herself. Best, then, to ignore the cold sheets of December ice in the hall, above the bureaus, in the bath. Best skate the thin ice, lightly. Paused, the weight of your attention might crack the shell. Plunged through the crust, you might drown in depths so cold, so remote, that all the Past lay carved in tombstone marbles there. Ice water would syringe your veins. Transfixed at the mirror still, you would stand forever, unable to lift your gaze from the proofs of Time.
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Miss Foley / Aunt Willa Quotes in Something Wicked This Way Comes
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Chapter 25
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Miss Foley had first noticed, some years ago, that her house was crowded with bright shadows of herself. Best, then, to ignore the cold sheets of December ice in the hall, above the bureaus, in the bath. Best skate the thin ice, lightly. Paused, the weight of your attention might crack the shell. Plunged through the crust, you might drown in depths so cold, so remote, that all the Past lay carved in tombstone marbles there. Ice water would syringe your veins. Transfixed at the mirror still, you would stand forever, unable to lift your gaze from the proofs of Time.
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