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Tom Weylin
Tom Weylin’s wife and Rufus’s mother, a hysterical and high-strung woman who relieves her boredom and sense of uselessness by making the lives of her house slaves miserable. She particularly hates Dana due to Dana’s higher education and confidence. Margaret’s sense of propriety and insistence on acting like a lady mask a deep-seated insecurity, fed by both her husband’s and her son’s callous treatment of her and the rumors that she came from a white-trash family. In her old age, Margaret mellows when she becomes addicted to laudanum.
Margaret Weylin Quotes in Kindred
The Kindred quotes below are all either spoken by Margaret Weylin or refer to Margaret Weylin. 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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Chapter 5: The Storm
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Carrie clasped her hands around her neck again. Then she drew closer to me and clasped them around my neck. Finally, she went over to the crib that her youngest child had recently outgrown and there, symbolically, clasped her hands again, leaving enough of an open circle for a small neck…. Margaret Weylin could not run the plantation. Both the land and the people would be sold. And if Tom Weylin was any example, the people would be sold without regard for family ties.
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Margaret Weylin Quotes in Kindred
The Kindred quotes below are all either spoken by Margaret Weylin or refer to Margaret Weylin. 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:
).
Chapter 5: The Storm
Quotes
Carrie clasped her hands around her neck again. Then she drew closer to me and clasped them around my neck. Finally, she went over to the crib that her youngest child had recently outgrown and there, symbolically, clasped her hands again, leaving enough of an open circle for a small neck…. Margaret Weylin could not run the plantation. Both the land and the people would be sold. And if Tom Weylin was any example, the people would be sold without regard for family ties.
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