How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
...telling us how the pistol was the living badge of his manhood, the ineffaceable proof that he was now twenty-one and a man; that he never intended, declined even to imagine the circumstance in which he would ever pull its trigger against a human being, yet he must have it with him; he would not more have left the pistol at home when he came away than he would have left his manhood in a distant closet or drawer when he came to work. (1.7)
Everyone knows how John feels about his pistol. His wife has even stitched a pocket exactly fitting the pistol on the inside of the bib of his overalls. John keeps it with him at all times; it's a public statement of his masculinity.
Quote #2
It's not men who cope with death; they resist, try to fight back and get their brains trampled out in consequence, where women just flank it, envelop it in one soft and instantaneous confederation of unresistance like cotton batting or cobwebs, already de-stingered and harmless, not merely reduced to size and usable but even useful like a penniless bachelor or spinster connection always unable to fill an empty space or conduct an extra guest down to dinner. (3.11)
Upon learning of the death of his grandfather, Lucius offers the wisdom that men and women cope with death differently. While men try and combat death, women welcome it with open arms.
Quote #3
"They are house rules," Mr Binford said. "A house without rules is not a house. The trouble with you bitches is, you have to act like ladies some of the time but you don't know how. I'm learning you how."
"You cant talk to me that way," the older one said.
"All right," Mr Binford said. "We'll turn it around. The trouble with you ladies is you don't know how to quit acting like bitches." (5.74-76)
We hope Mr. Binford angers you as much as he does us, as this isn't a nice thing to say to women. Even Lucius is uncomfortable around Mr. Binford, and he's not a guy that Lucius wants to be like at all.