Tom - "I haven't enjoyed one bite of my dinner because of your constant directions on how to eat it.It's you that makes me hurry through my meals with your hawk-like attention to every bite I take. It's disgusting - all this discussion of animal secretion-salivary glands-mastication!" -- This quote is showing Tom standing against his mother and being fed up, and angry with her persistent nagging over everything that he does. It shows that Tom wants to leave because of his annoua=ence but also that he is going to still put up with it by saying that this wasn't the first time this situation has occurred.
Laura - "I don't believe we are going to receive any, Mother" -- This shows how Laura is separate because she doesn't think any of the gentlemen callers will be there and how she is separated from society. It also shows how she is upset about her mother's ability to hit her with those words because she can't seem to find a gentlemen caller.
Amanda - "I remember one Sunday afternoon in Blue Mountain when your mother was a girl she recieved-seventeen-gentlemen callers! Why sometimes there weren't chairs enough to accommodate them all and we had to send the colored boy over to the parish house to fetch the folding chairs." -- It shows how Amanda likes to lie in memories. It also shows how she loves to exaggerate things and made them seem bigger and more important than they really were. She also does it to make herself feel better about her husband leaving and the life that she used to have been so much better than this, it is the only way she can stay back in what she thinks are the "good times".
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