How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
... Mother's white dress and underclothes lay against her so that ellipses of flesh pressed through. She looked so young with her hair down on her shoulders and matted around her head. Her skirts stuck to her limbs and every few moments she would bend to pluck them away from her body and the wind would blow them back against her. (34.8)
This is not the Mother we meet at the beginning of the book, a woman who is prim and proper and asexual. This is a woman walking in the rain who's increasingly in touch with her sensuality, and beautiful because of it. She's come full circle, and Doctorow will give her the happy ending of eventually marrying Tateh and living in California.