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Quote #1
Doctor Harry spread a warm paw like a cushion on her forehead where the forked green vein danced and made her eyelids twitch. "Now, now, be a good girl, and we'll have you up in no time."
"That's no way to speak to a woman nearly eighty years old just because she's down. I'd have you respect your elders, young man" (2-3).
Doctor Harry may just be joking around, but Granny seriously objects to being called a girl (We would too). Granny is quick to correct Doctor Harry that she is a woman (hear her roar).
Quote #2
[Cornelia] was always being tactful and kind. Cornelia was dutiful; that was the trouble with her. Dutiful and good; "So good and dutiful," said Granny, "that I'd like to spank her." She saw herself spanking Cornelia and making a fine job of it (10).
Cornelia seems to conform to traditional expectations of how women should act by being "tactful and kind" as well as "dutiful and good." Granny's disapproval of those qualities suggests that she is totally not down with conventional gender roles.
Quote #3
She lay and drowsed, hoping in her sleep that the children would keep out and let her rest a minute. It had been a long day. Not that she was tired. It was always pleasant to snatch a minute now and then. There was always so much to be done, let me see: tomorrow (16).
It sounds like Granny didn't get the memo that she's not the mother of young kids anymore. What does the fact that these kinds of thoughts are still running through her head suggest?