Quotes In Dolores Frediscoll

The bus driver for the town of Sam Dent, Dolores Driscoll, seems very nice and caring, but there are definitely many examples throughout the first chapter that show her to be quite goofy. First of all, a lot of the things she says and the phrases that she uses are very out there and do not seem to make a whole lot of sense. In the second paragraph on page eleven Dolores says, “Doreen was a Pomeroy from Lake Placid, a sweet little ding-a-ling of a girl”. On page 31 paragraph two Dolores also says, “...and it scared the bejesus out of me, although I could not for the life of me tell you why”. These two sentences make her seem a little loony because the things she says are so unique, and even I rarely ever her people use those phrases. This is just one example of how the author portrays Dolores to be just a bit nutty.
In the very first paragraph of the book she says, “ A dog-it was a dog I saw for certain. Or thought I saw”. And then again on page 34 in the first paragraph Delores also says,” And, yes, it was then that I saw the dog, the second dog, the one I maybe only thought I saw.” I find it to be somewhat daffy that she is having such a hard time deciding whether she saw a dog or not. To me, even though it was a very traumatic time in her life, it seems like she should remember what she saw. She shows even more whackiness on the second page in the second paragraph when she says, “... or even an optical illusion, which, to be absolutely truthful, now seems likeliest”. Any normal, smart person would know that an optical illusion is not very reasonable, which is just another reason why Dolores Driscoll is possibly more than just a bit