https://padlet.com/jmercier0003/wka1v3bb7kraaf2r Made with big dreams en-us 2022-04-03 18:08:36 UTC 2026-02-18 02:04:29 UTC hello@padlet.com jmercier0003 https://padlet.com/jmercier0003/wka1v3bb7kraaf2r/wish/2127402771 - "He gets mean when he feels unhappy" pg 8 
In this quote, the main character Delores overhears her mother and father arguing, after her mother chides the husband for using vulgar language in the house. This angers the father and he guilts the mother into crying and apologizing. Later that night Delores asks her mom "Is daddy mean" and the quote is the mother's response. This scene is significant because it is the first time the reader gets an understanding of the family dynamic and the relationship between the mother and father. ]]> 2022-04-03 18:29:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jmercier0003/wka1v3bb7kraaf2r/wish/2127402771 jmercier0003 https://padlet.com/jmercier0003/wka1v3bb7kraaf2r/wish/2127420267 - "That black and white Emerson television set was a gift free and clear of the strings that would begin our family's unraveling" 

In this quote, Delores and her family have just received a tv from her father's boss Mrs. Masicotte. The tv's appearance in Delores life is one she can markdown as the beginning of things going bad in her life. This is significant because as the story goes along we see that the tv was a source of bonding for the family, even though as the story continues the bonding kind of ends and the tv is watched more in a perfunctory manner. ]]> 2022-04-03 18:53:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jmercier0003/wka1v3bb7kraaf2r/wish/2127420267 aferguson0011 https://padlet.com/jmercier0003/wka1v3bb7kraaf2r/wish/2127470027 Quote #1
"That that black-and-white Emerson television set was a gift free and clear of the strings that would begin our family's unraveling"(5). 
At this time, we are being introduced to the main character, Dolores Price, and her family. Her family's main source of income is her dad, who works for a wealthy woman. This woman recently gifted the family a TV set for the dad's work. This quote foreshadows what could possibly happen later in the novel. The wealthy woman has the financial power in the family so they all have to obey her wishes. I think this quote is implying a bigger message that everything comes at a price. So even though the TV was free, Dolores and her family will be paying for it in the future. 

Quote #2
"Don't you ever-ever!-tell me what I can and cannot do in the privacy of my own home, my father shouted" (8). 
Dolores's parents got into an argument after her father said something disrespectful about a man on a TV show. Dolores's mother told her father not to say those things, which infuriated him. This moment is significant as it shows that her father is very dominant over her mother and holds power over her. It suggests that there will be a pattern of abuse or anger issues that will play a large role throughout the novel. This could affect Dolores's outlook on her life and what she thinks of her mother or father.]]> 2022-04-03 20:00:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jmercier0003/wka1v3bb7kraaf2r/wish/2127470027 cambrocio0002 https://padlet.com/jmercier0003/wka1v3bb7kraaf2r/wish/2128024515 Quote 1: "Mine is a story of craving: an unreliable account of lusts and troubles that began, somehow, in 1956 on the day our free television was delivered." (17)
At this point, Dolores Price is done telling us the introduction to the unraveling of her family. This quote gives us the clearest and possibly the last reliable thing Dolores as our narrator can tell us. The bigger implication of this quote is Dolores's awareness of her lust and how she is unreliable. The quote allows us to look into her and see where it all starts before she becomes someone who we will turn to possibly hate later in the story. 

Quote 2: My not kissing Ma anymore was a conscious decision reached one night at bedtime with the purpose of hurting her." 
At the age of 10, this is where we as readers see Dolores's more obvious signs of trouble. This follows the events of her manipulating a situation to kick out her grandmother from the house. It goes to show the start of Dolores's toxic tendencies, setting a path and possibly foreshadowing what kind of person she will turn into later in life. By going out of her way to hurt her mother, it makes me wonder what else she will do to hurt those around her regardless of her attachments to them.  ]]> 2022-04-04 05:51:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jmercier0003/wka1v3bb7kraaf2r/wish/2128024515 fhernande0148 https://padlet.com/jmercier0003/wka1v3bb7kraaf2r/wish/2128060288 Quote #1:
"My not kissing Ma anymore was a conscious decision reached one night at bedtime with the purpose of hurting her." (Pg 21)
During this time, Dolores decided to stop kissing her mother after she had been kissing Petey, her mother's parakeet, according to Dolores. After losing her baby, Petey was given to Dolores's mother as a support animal to help her with her immense sadness. Dolores became fed up with her mother's sadness and decided upon this action to hurt her mother for essentially, hurting her. We see from this quote that Dolores basically begins to mimick her father's actions when he's angry. Dolores commits actions against her mother for the sole purpose of hurting her, such as this decision of not kissing her anymore. This quote is very significant as we see how the father's abuse towards the mother begins to effect Dolores. Dolores, the child, picks up what she is seeing in her household, taking her father's side and placing her mother as the one in the wrong.

Quote #2:
"I squeezed the rubber handlebar caps, squeezed the shaking out of myself. I hated both of them. The harder I pedaled-the more I risked-the better it felt." (Pg 27)
This quote is the result of an argument that broke out between Dolores's parents. The parents of Dolores begin to argue and before it escalates, Dolores is asked to step outside the house, which she does right before the father begins to hit the mother. In response, Dolores rides her bike harder and harder, finding relief in doing so. Through her actions, we see that Dolores is hurting and is looking for an escape, which makes this a significant quote. She's expected to deal with her parent's problems and still behave as if nothing occured, which eventually catches up to her, causing her to leave her home unexpectedly in a fit of anger and hurt. As previously mentioned, she may be looking for an escape, which in this case, is adrenaline as she states the more the risk, the better she feels. This urge to feel adrenaline and have an escape could lead to future substance abuse or similar problems in her future.

Quote #3:
"When the last of them faded off to sleep, I started shaking so hard that I couldn't stop myself. Maybe he'd left because I was a bad person."
In this scenario, Dolores is at a sleepover at her best friend, Jeanette's house. Throughout the night she's rude, loud, and aggressive towards the other girls and Jeanette's mother. Her overbearing behavior is simply a mask to cover her true emotions. Once everyone falls asleep, she is consumed by her emotions that we see she is trying hard to push down. Dolores begins to contemplate her father's reasons for leaving, thinking he might've left because of her. Her parent's problems have become hers, and not knowing how to deal with her emotions creates anger, confusion and seperation. This quote is significant because it hints at future trauma she may deal with and how this trauma may effect ehr way of interacting with other in her future.]]> 2022-04-04 06:25:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jmercier0003/wka1v3bb7kraaf2r/wish/2128060288 ncanovas0001 https://padlet.com/jmercier0003/wka1v3bb7kraaf2r/wish/2129001486 Quote # 1
"...When I thought that, like Lucy and Ricky Ricardo, my parents' fights just meant they loved each other in a noisy way."
This quote shows us that at this point dolores parents fighting is just a new norm for her and the only love she's been exposed to is toxic and unhealthy. I think the bigger implication if this quote is that perhaps in the future when she's with someone she'll be exposed to this same type of situation because it's all she knows.
Quote #2
"I wanted my father to be at home laughing with Ma on Saturday afternoons, instead of with Mrs. Masicotte, who had yellowy white hair and a fat little body like Zahara's."
This quote shows how much dolores resents her dad's boss. He wants his dad to pay attention to his wife. Personally i think this is going to foreshadow some type of argument between dolores dad and mom. I think he might be cheating just because up to this point he spends a lot of time with his boss and she gives them alot of things and Ma doesnt like her either.]]> 2022-04-04 16:20:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jmercier0003/wka1v3bb7kraaf2r/wish/2129001486 aferguson0011 https://padlet.com/jmercier0003/wka1v3bb7kraaf2r/wish/2131301299 2022-04-05 18:58:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jmercier0003/wka1v3bb7kraaf2r/wish/2131301299 fhernande0148 https://padlet.com/jmercier0003/wka1v3bb7kraaf2r/wish/2135900002 Quote #1:
"I knelt and prayed-not for forgiveness but for the accuracy of my assumption: that the sanctity of the confessional applies more to murderers than kids." (Pg 52)
During this time, Dolores had just finished her confessions where she played out a scheme against Rosalie Pysyk, a twin who bullied Dolores. Dolores told the father that Rosalie had defaced her religion book and was tols to pray after her confession. This quote contains her reason for praying, assigned from it being assigned to her. This intellectual thought has deep meaning and consideration, making it uncommon for a girl the age of Dolores to figure this out. In a way, this thought could lead to many more thoughts like this, which may be caused by trauma and the exposition of adult problems at a young age. Once again, we see Dolores's family problems effect her even if these thoughts may seem harmless or insignificant. 

Quote #2:
" 'Guess what? I bought a car!'... 'Didn't even go to the interview'... Her hair was platinum blond." (Pg 60)
Although this is a combination of multiple sentences, this situation highlights Bernice's (Dolores's mother) impulsiveness and failure to commit. Instead of heading to an interview for a job, Bernice buys a car,  dyes her hair blond, and arrives with a new orange coat. Bernice's unstable behavior, despite her attendance at an (implied) mental hospital, doesn't seem to improve and instead sets up conditions that will most likely effect Dolores's future, including her mental health and ability to understand a stable life. This representation of her behavior gives the reader an insight to Bernice's thought process, allowing us to get a deeper understanding of Bernice's personality and character.

]]> 2022-04-08 06:37:48 UTC https://padlet.com/jmercier0003/wka1v3bb7kraaf2r/wish/2135900002 AARONGUERRERO12 https://padlet.com/jmercier0003/wka1v3bb7kraaf2r/wish/2136789563 Quote#1:
¨that that black-and-white Emerson television set was a gift free and clear of the strings that would begin our family's unraveling.¨pg.5
Dolores is remembering when she was little and her family was gifted a television set from Mrs. Masicotte. Television watching became an important part of her life as it became one of her favorite habits. Dolores along with her mom would watch TV together making them spend family time together. Family is an important topic in this novel. This quote is also important as it is foreshadowing that something will happen to their family. 
Quote#2:
¨Many times each week memory makes me a child again.¨pg.17
Dolores was reliving more memories from when she was at Mrs. Masicottes house. This shows the importance of her childhood and the impact its had on her life as she grows. She continues to relive these memories as a grown women. ]]> 2022-04-08 18:35:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jmercier0003/wka1v3bb7kraaf2r/wish/2136789563 AARONGUERRERO12 https://padlet.com/jmercier0003/wka1v3bb7kraaf2r/wish/2137059145 Quote#1
¨She waited several seconds for me to say I love her too. I wanted to say it. Risk it. It wouldn't come out.¨pg.90
Dolores's mother got home from a night out bowling. She approaches Dolores, who is doing homework, and tries to talk to her. Dolores makes her go away, so her mom just kisses her goodnight. For a long time now, Dolores has committed herself to stop kissing her mom as a way of trying to make her feel bad. As time passes she is resenting and hating her mom more and more. Their relationship is deteriorating and its having a negative affect on them.
Quote#2
¨He was always full of promises. He had wrecked my whole life.¨pg.97
At school, Dolores meets a 7th grader named Norma. Norma has a cigarette that ends up at the bottom of a Virgin Mary statue. This reminds Dolores of the time her father promised to take her one day to Florida to see a rocket launching. Since the split of her parents Dolores has only talked to her father once on the phone and since then has refused to either see or speak to him. I believe there is still something in her that wants to see her father but she doesn't want to give in. This is important as she blames her father for everything. For being the reason of all her problems, which is why she hates him. ]]> 2022-04-09 01:14:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jmercier0003/wka1v3bb7kraaf2r/wish/2137059145 ncanovas0001 https://padlet.com/jmercier0003/wka1v3bb7kraaf2r/wish/2137132049 quote #3
" ...It must have been something else i felt up there when he was on me, tickling me. His knee or his elbow or something. He and Rita were married, they were having a little baby together, for pity's sake. I was just a pig and an idiot. I was pitiful."
Sadly through this quote, Jack who was a whole grown man was acting inappropriately with Dolores who's still a minor and she blames herself. This started as external thing because jack had asked her to stay but since he couldn't really control himself and Dolores blames herself and she feels guilty for something that wasn't her fault. This connects to some big ideas such as shame,pain,hate and self esteem.

quote #4
" She hugged me and rocked me against her and made me a cup of tea. The comfort of it, the warmth i swallowed was the first thing i'd felt in weeks."
After having gone through an awful experience, she tells her neighbor first and finds comfort in her and the tea instead of telling her mom first. What i gathered from this quote that she still holds some sense of rancor towards her mom given her traumatic childhood. This connects to the big ideas of  childhood, mental health and depression.

]]> 2022-04-09 03:32:21 UTC https://padlet.com/jmercier0003/wka1v3bb7kraaf2r/wish/2137132049 cambrocio0002 https://padlet.com/jmercier0003/wka1v3bb7kraaf2r/wish/2137166122 Quote 3: "'Could you just hold me?' I asked her. The request seemed to startle her, but she obliged me." 
This quote comes following Dolores's conversation with her father. We watch as her father tries to reconnect with her while she fights her tears, possible fighting the urge to forgive and reconcile with her father who'd hurt her. When she ends the call, she asks her grandmother, a women who she'd disliked up until this point, to console her. It's one of the few moments we see her act with such selfish vulnerability. And as a child who's yet to turn into a devious individual, we, as readers, are able to sympathize and pity her. This quote goes to show the depth of her character, fleshing her out as more than just a rebellious child who acts out due to her daddy issues. This scene shows that, at this moment, she's still a young girl at heart, still desiring the comfort and touch of the adults in her life. She fights against reconciling with her father but her tears show that she wants nothing more than it. It's a sad scene, and the fact that she requested to be held instead of being distracted only helps amplify the idea that she is a person; a human being with faults and flaws, and most importantly feelings.  

Quote 4: "My hands wandered the insides of my thighs, back and forth against my wet underpants. Eddie's hands. Jack's." 
This comes after she first hears Jack and his girlfriend having sex. The scene comes at the end of the chapter, coming off as a way to make the audience aware of Dolores's desires. She not only has discovered herself sexually, but she has come to desire the men around her. Men like her own dead uncle. This scene comes off as one of the author's ways to foreshadow Dolores as a character. She is no longer the young girl with the sad story of having an absent father. Instead, she is now a girl who feeds into her desires, sexual or otherwise, her uncle or her neighbor. It doesn't matter to her. What matters to her, is what satisfies. It goes to show the beginning of the development of her fall as a character, potentially setting up her fall into unlikability. ]]> 2022-04-09 04:56:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jmercier0003/wka1v3bb7kraaf2r/wish/2137166122 jmercier0003 https://padlet.com/jmercier0003/wka1v3bb7kraaf2r/wish/2137467947 “ Let people just shit all over you. Don’t you ever become some man’s personal toilet the way I did” 

In this quote Dolores mother had just returned from mental Rehabilitation . This quote represents the mother understanding how she was treated in her past and how unacceptable it truly was. This quote also was a representation of the mothers sanity. When she came back from the hospital she had A new mindset. One that the grandmother did not like. ]]> 2022-04-09 16:11:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jmercier0003/wka1v3bb7kraaf2r/wish/2137467947 jmercier0003 https://padlet.com/jmercier0003/wka1v3bb7kraaf2r/wish/2137479150 “You see,Thelma never had none of that . She’s sort of a scared little girl.” 

At this point of the text Dolores has been living with her mother at  her grandmother’s house. Upon the mothers return from the mental hospital, we see the grandmother and mothers dynamic. And honestly it is sad and I for one can understand why the mother turned out how she did. The grandmother is judgemental and restrictive. And in this quote Delores is at one of their neighbours house complaining about her grandmother. Roberta (the neighbour) that the grandmother hates explains to Dolores that her grandmother is just scared of this she does not know so just judges out of fear. ]]> 2022-04-09 16:32:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jmercier0003/wka1v3bb7kraaf2r/wish/2137479150 aferguson0011 https://padlet.com/jmercier0003/wka1v3bb7kraaf2r/wish/2137725378 "Holding everything inside. Feeling guilty about everything. Dr. Markey-this doctor I worked with-told me half my problem was being raised in an unhealthy environment. That it constipated me-emotionally"(58). 
Dolores's mother has just come back from the psychiatric hospital. Not much has improved from before she was in the hospital and she very quickly get into an argument with the Grandma and called her house a "house of repression." Later on, she goes into detail with Dolores about what she meant when said this. This moment gave readers more of an understanding of who Dolores's mother is and what may have caused her to have the issues that she does now. It seems that unfortunately, Dolores's mother has reflected her own issues growing up onto Dolores and now Dolores is living in the same environment that her mother did. We see how much the way we are raised has an impact on our future and how we treat others, even our own children. 

"Listen. It's nicer if you don't fight it. We're friends, you and me. Don't wreck it." (109).
At this point, Dolores has become extremely close with Jack, a new neighbor. Jack has a wife and is expecting a baby. Up until this moment, Dolores was fond of Jack in a mostly innocuous way, and she enjoyed spending time with him. However, very soon into their "friendship", he showed his true intentions and sexually assaulted Dolores. Jack purposely repeatedly calls Dolores his friend to make his actions seem normal and justified, even though they are clearly not and she slowly realizes that. Unfortunately, this will affect Dolores's life in a horrible way and she will have to navigate how to heal and recover from this moment, mainly by herself. This is another time in the book in which she is coming undone. ]]> 2022-04-10 02:04:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jmercier0003/wka1v3bb7kraaf2r/wish/2137725378 AARONGUERRERO12 https://padlet.com/jmercier0003/wka1v3bb7kraaf2r/wish/2154287988 Quote 1:
¨Within three months of my employment, I quit smoking, opened a checking account, and petitioned successfully for unlimited shopping privileges.¨pg.281
Dolores has spent some time now at a mental hospital getting help. While being at this place she has seen great improvements, especially with Dr. Shaw, and has now gotten herself a job printing pictures. This is important because its good to see Dolores getting over her traumatic past and not being ashamed of herself anymore. Its starting to look like she is a whole new person.
Quote 2:
¨Fred Burden made a speech about me and gave me my going-away present, a twelve-inch black-and-white portable TV they'd all chipped in to buy me.¨ pg.294
Dolores is leaving the mental hospital as she feels she is ready to enter the real world. She plans to find Dante and spend her time with him. Fred is a friend Dolores made at the mental hospital and he gifts her a TV. This is important because you can relate this to early in the book when the TV gift from Mrs. Masicotte lead to bad things happening to her family. Will this TV gift also foreshadow something negative happening to Dolores. Will this decision to leave and find Dante be a mistake? Besides this TV deja vu it is important that Dolores is finally able to put all her trauma behind her and start a new life. ]]> 2022-04-23 02:05:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jmercier0003/wka1v3bb7kraaf2r/wish/2154287988 ncanovas0001 https://padlet.com/jmercier0003/wka1v3bb7kraaf2r/wish/2154348835 Quote #1 "' ...I reminded myself. 'Dante's waiting for you. Not the dead whale.'" (pg 295)
At this point in the book, Dolores has made an impulsive decision to go look for her old college roommate's ex boyfriend. She claims that Dante is waiting for her when he doesn't even know that she exists. She's starting to rope people into this desperate coping mechanism. Her sanity, although she's already left the hospital, is still arguable .
Quote #2  " A normal sex life: i was ready for one"
After getting raped, and getting harrassed by an old man ( crusty mr.wing) dolores is still left with scars. Healing is one of the reoccurring themes. She's healing and mourning her rape, her mothers death, her weight etc.
]]> 2022-04-23 04:06:48 UTC https://padlet.com/jmercier0003/wka1v3bb7kraaf2r/wish/2154348835 fhernande0148 https://padlet.com/jmercier0003/wka1v3bb7kraaf2r/wish/2154372842 Quote #1
"The line filled up with truth as I wrote it and I had to stop and cry." (Pg 334)
In this situation, Dolores informs her grandmother she would not be visiting for Christmas after scheduling an appointment for an abortion of her nine-week fetus for the day after Christmas. She writes to her grandmother that she wouldn't be visitng and mentions she misses her and wants to see her. This specific line resonated with the difference of attitude towards her grandmother compared to her younger years. After a series of events and trauma, Dolores sincerely misses her grandmother which shows possible signs of character development, if it's not an act based upon her current life circumstances. 

Quote #2
"At the sink, I did the dishes and cried at how touchy and mean I'd been to those old ladies" (Pg 390)
After her grandmother's funeral, four old ladies visited Dolores at her grandmother's home for lunch and eventually left, leaving Dolores thinking about a comment she made about one of the ladies' grandchildren. The fact that she cried over her rudeness shows results of the trauma she faced throughout her youth. Oftentimes holding back emotions or feeling a certain emotion for so long can cause frequent breakdowns at the slightest inconvenience. I believe either this is why Dolores cried, or due to the recent passing of her grandmother leaving her vulnerable and emotional. Or both. Nonetheless, her change in character is noticeable after knowing her angry and rude reputation as a teenager and young adult.]]> 2022-04-23 04:52:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jmercier0003/wka1v3bb7kraaf2r/wish/2154372842 jmercier0003 https://padlet.com/jmercier0003/wka1v3bb7kraaf2r/wish/2154374513 Quote #1
“My mind wouldn’t shut off... it must have been something else I had felt up there when he was on me, tickling me.” 

at this point of the novel Delores is getting closer to Jack but there encounter on his porch leaves Delores feeling uncomfortable to say the least. This quote begins the unsettling feeling Delores seems to be demonstrating around Jack , after he vented to her about his relationship,job, and in a way inappropriately tickled her after she repeatedly said stop.  Following this uncomfortable encounter between the two he proceeds  to inject himself into Delores life causing one to wonder what are his motives behind “befriending” a 12 year old. 



Quote #2 

“Just pretended I died” 

In this quote Delores is referring to an earlier statement she made to her father after he repeatedly continued to call her. Except in this moment she was being raped by Jack and she was coming to terms with the fact that no one was coming to save her including her father. This quote and moment in the novel has an impactful essence to it. Meaning we are introduced to the character Jack and the reader sees a manipulative and quite frankly sick relationship being built between the two until Delores, is put in a situation she can’t out run. Jack uses Delores eagerness, loneliness, and innocence to rape and take advantage of a underage girl. Then he proceeds the make her feel like she it guilty of the sexual acts that took place when she is infact a victim of molester posing as her “friend”   .  

]]> 2022-04-23 04:58:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jmercier0003/wka1v3bb7kraaf2r/wish/2154374513 aferguson0011 https://padlet.com/jmercier0003/wka1v3bb7kraaf2r/wish/2154395165 "Hands shaking, I cut myself a zigzag square of Ma's painting: green tip of the wing against the cool blue sky. I stuffed it into the knapsack and ran like hell, down the corridor, down the stairs, away" (224). 
At this point in the novel, Dolores has finally decided to attend college after her mother's death. While she is in college she experiences more trauma. She attends a party, and one of the college guys ends up dancing on her, or rather harassing her as a way of making fun of her. She decided to take her things and run away, but when she arrives at her dorm, she realizes that the college guys has ruined all of her things. On the way out, she decides to specifically take a piece of her mother's painting. I think that this small moment is so important because it shows how much she has grown to respect and love her mother. She didn't realize how much she cared for her mom until she was gone. Even having a small part of her with her at all times is crucial for Dolores.

"I killed her fish instead. Two glug-glugs' worth of Clorox per tank. The deaths were quick" (231). 
When Dolores decided to run away from her dorm, she immediately calls Dottie to come pick her up. Dottie is the girl she met when she arrived to college a couple of weeks earlier than she was supposed to. Dottie and Dolores end up having sexual intercourse, but Dolores feels uncomfortable about it afterwards. She decides to leave Dottie in the middle of the night and kills Dottie's beloved fish before she leaves. This point in the novel was new low for Dolores. She placed all of the blame on Dottie for something that she was also a part of. Her killing Dottie's fish is a symbol of her not taking responsibility in her actions and making herself a victim in a situation that she was not necessarily victimized to. ]]> 2022-04-23 06:16:35 UTC https://padlet.com/jmercier0003/wka1v3bb7kraaf2r/wish/2154395165 cambrocio0002 https://padlet.com/jmercier0003/wka1v3bb7kraaf2r/wish/2156047763 "She saw me for not what I was--an accomplice in a baby's murder--but as Jack's innocent victim. I was able to drop her to her knees with demands. So I did."
At this point in the book, Jack has raped Dolores and the news of it has surfaced as well as the death of his wife's baby. In this final scene of this segment, Dolores makes this observation on how she is seen by her mother. Rather blunt and absent of any sympathy for herself, she claims herself to be the murderer of the baby. Following it up with how she came to figuratively dropped her mother to her knees, it makes he come off as a calloused and cold hearted character, it only helps add depth to her as a person. This scene serves great importance in the story as it is one of the more explicit depictions of Dolores' awareness of her situation, and how she uses it to manipulate those around her. This scene shows the bigger theme of trauma and its effects on a character. Trama doesn't make Dolores any more sympathetic or gives her a new outlook on life. Instead, it causes the people around her to shield and protect her, allowing her to take advantage of the new privileges and blinding her. However, even in her small thoughts like this, she acknowledges her manipulation. Even if just a little bit. 

"I made the bathwater as hot as it would go--as scalding as the night he had done it to me--and eased myself in. Not that it worked. Not that it ever washed away." 
Prior to this scene, Dolores had had her humiliating visit to the doctor where she is essentially shamed and embarrassed. Once she returns home, she flees to the tub where she sinks into the burning heat of the water. Here, Dolores is in pain, physically and emotionally as she is reliving the pain of the memory of her rape. Although short, the mention of it is heartbreaking. This scene is important as it draws out the effects trauma has on a person. Encounters like the ones Dolores had with the doctor can trigger memories like these. And even when Dolores isn't such an upstanding individual, you can't help but feel bad and sympathize for her in these moments of wanting to just wash away all the bad things her rapist had done to her. ]]> 2022-04-25 07:05:07 UTC https://padlet.com/jmercier0003/wka1v3bb7kraaf2r/wish/2156047763