Our Mutual Friend Jealousy Quotes

How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)

Quote #4

Looking like the hunted, and not the hunter, baffled, worn, with the exhaustion of deferred hope and consuming hate and anger in his face, white-lipped, wild-eyed, draggle-haired, seamed with jealousy and anger, and torturing himself with the conviction that he showed it all and they exulted in it. (13.10.147)

As the book unfolds, you can see Bradley Headstone getting more and more frantic in his hatred of Eugene Wrayburn. Just imagine how he'll feel when he finds out that Lizzie's actually in love with Eugene? Oh that's right. He becomes a murderer.

Quote #5

He knew equally well that he fed his wrath and hatred, and that he accumulated provocation and self-justification, by being made the nightly sport of the reckless and insolent Eugene. (14.11.3)

Headstone isn't just jealous. He's downright paranoid. All he can do is sit around and fantasize about how Eugene is sitting around making fun of him. But here's the worst part of all: Eugene doesn't think about him, period. How's that for an ego-killer?

Quote #6

"I know something more than you name about you; I knew something about Gaffer Hexam. When did you last set eyes upon his daughter?" (14.11.72)

The first time Headstone runs into Mr. Riderhood, he wants to know when he (Riderhood) last saw Gaffer Hexam's daughter Lizzie. Again, Headstone seems incapable of talking to anyone without making the conversation about Lizzie and/or his rival Eugene.