Mrs Hall Quotes

Mrs. Hall and Her Obstinate and Tainted High Horse
I think we can all agree that Mrs. Hall is a hard person to get along with much less like. At every turn in Ruth Hall she pins the blame for every misfortune that befalls Harry and Ruth on Ruth. In Mrs. Hall’s opinion, Ruth’s actions, appearances, or something she has done caused Ruth to deserve such a horrible lot and now she is infecting her son with her misfortune. A large part of her demeanor is due to the type of person she is and how she feels about her son and Ruth. The only way Mrs. Hall would like Ruth as a person is if she had never seen or spoken to her in her life. This is evident when she talks about Ruth’s book.
In one scene near the end of Ruth Hall In Chapter 86, Mrs. Hall was talking with one of her neighbors (Mrs. Spear) about Floy’s book (Fern). She loved the book so much so that she paid the unknown writer a compliment saying, “I don’t often

Hall has always been an unpleasant person. In a previous passage, Ruth said Mrs. Hall is an, “unhappy, miserable old woman” and that she “is more miserable than ever now, because I have earned money to support you and Katy” (Fern). Mrs. Hall would probably have been superior or unpleasant with Ruth if she had met her on the street while shopping somewhere but, when Ruth married Harry, she probably took this action as stealing her only child away. Before they wed, Mrs. Hall had him all to herself and could control what he did while he was under her roof. This might, at one point, have started out as motherly love but became overbearing. It didn’t help matters that Mrs. Hall was also jealous of Ruth. This feeling along with her condescending and impertinent nature caused her to plague Ruth and Harry’s life and torment almost every waking hour of their existence. She acted like Ruth couldn’t do anything right because she believed she couldn’t and that Harry was too good for Ruth to be his