Ann Petry Quotes

“She never found out what had prompted Jonathan Chandler to kill himself. She wasn’t too interested. But she was interested in the way in which money transformed a suicide she had seen committed from start to finish in front of her very eyes into “an accident with a gun.” It was done very neatly, too. Mrs. Chandler’s mother simply called Mrs. Chandler’s father in Washington. Lutie overheard the tail-end of the conversation, “Now you get it fixed up. Oh, yes, you can. He was cleaning a gun.”
― Ann Petry, Ann Petry: The Street, The Narrows (LOA #314)