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Violet’s Father
Malvonne is Joe and Violet’s gossipy neighbor. She is very concerned with her nephew Sweetness, and with the stories she reads in discarded letters. Malvonne rents Joe her room to use with Dorcas, though she makes it clear (repeatedly) that she does not approve of this affair. Malvonne is often used as comic relief throughout the novel.
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Malvonne Character Timeline in Jazz
The timeline below shows where the character Malvonne appears in Jazz. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 1
...nothing about the girl (later revealed to be named Dorcas). To learn more, Violet asked Malvonne, the neighbor who had rented Joe her apartment as a “love nest”; she also asked...
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Chapter 2
...sex, laughing and shouting and pampering each other with Joe’s Cleopatra products. Before they left Malvonne’s small apartment, Dorcas heading home to her aunt Alice Manfred and Joe returning to Violet,...
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Malvonne works the night shift as a cleaning lady in a big office building, but she...
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One day, Joe arrives to Malvonne’s small apartment with a proposition: he will give her two dollars a month, and she...
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Malvonne agrees, and Joe becomes what the narrator calls a “Thursday man,” seeking not the intensity...
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