Miss Claythorne Guilt Quotes

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Other character’s speech, thoughts, feelings, and actions can also show a person’s guilt. “Miss Claythorne was wonderful- kept her head- started off swimming after Cyril at once.” (pg.140). This quote showed part of Vera’s guilt, because of the fact that no one ever questioned whether or not she was guilty Vera didn’t confess to intentionally killing Cyril. To add, Vera was praised and thanked for being levelheaded but in the end she felt even more guilt because she never confessed to causing Cyril’s

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