The Diamond as Big as the Ritz Visions of America Quotes

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Quote #10

Mrs. Washington was aloof and reserved at all times. She was apparently indifferent to her two daughters, and entirely absorbed in her son Percy, with whom she held interminable conversations in rapid Spanish at dinner. (8.1)

Mrs. Washington is all about her son but ignores her daughter. This behavior may be another jab at American culture (at least in the 1920s).