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While all of Bessie's children are exceptionally intelligent and sophisticated, she herself is not nearly as much so. Bessie is a simple woman, who remarks at one point in ''Zooey'', "I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy." Bessie is a minor character in all of the Glass family stories with the exception of '' Zooey ''. Bessie, while wandering around the Glass apartment, wears a "hoary midnight-blue Japanese Kimono ", onto which she has added two over-sized pockets at the hips, which typically contain "two or three packs of cigarettes, several match folders, a screwdriver, a claw-end hammer, a Boy Scout knife that had once belonged to one of her sons, and an enamel faucet handle or two, plus an assortment of screws, nails, hinges, and ball-bearing casters". Her daughters Boo Boo and Franny both detest the kimono, and make several unsuccessful attempts to dispose of it. |
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