Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from Mourning Becomes Electra.
Family Quotes
LOUISA: SSShh! Someone's comin' out. Let's get back here! (they crowd to the rear of the
bench by the lilac clump and peer through the leaves as the front door is
opened and Christine Mannon comes...
Lies and Deceit Quotes
MINNIE: My, she's awful handsome ain't she?
LOUISA: Too furrin' lookin' for my taste.
MINNIE: Ayeh. There somethin' queer lookin' about her face.
AMES: Secret lookin'—'s if it was a mask she p...
Sex and Lust Quotes
LAVINIA: I've heard that he loved the Canuck nurse girl who
was taking care of Father's little sister who died, and had to marry her
because she was going to have a baby; and that Grandfather put t...
Death Quotes
One is struck at once by the strange impression [her face]
gives in repose of not living flesh but a wonderfully life-like pale mask, in
which only the deep-set eyes, of a dark violet blue, are ali...
Justice and Judgment Quotes
BRANT: My mother sewed for a living and sent me to school.
She was very strict with me. […] But she was bound she'd make a gentleman of me
[…] if it took her last cent and her last strap! She d...
Society and Class Quotes
MINNIE: My sakes! What a purty house!
SETH: Wal, I promised Amos I'd help show ye the sights when
you came to visit him. 'Tain't everyone can git to see the Mannon place close
to. They're strict a...
Fate Quotes
SETH: I believe anything you tell me to believe. I ain't
been with the Mannons for sixty years without learning that. Ain't you noticed
this Brant reminds you of someone in looks?LAVINIA: Yes. I ha...
The Supernatural Quotes
SETH: […] And here's another funny thing—his name. Brant's
sort of queer fur a name. I ain't never heard tell of it before. Sounds made up
to me—like short fur somethin' else. Remember what t...