Seeks affection (black sailor, makes her pregnant)
Key Traits
Self-contained
More mature than her years
Sharp wit, more than
matches her mother's
hardness
Some signs of artistic talent
Fears motherhood because
of father's idiocy
Quotes
"I'm not sorry and I'm not glad."
Geoffrey: "The dream is gone." Jo: "But the baby's real
Jo: "I hope to be dead and buried by the time I reach your
age. Just think you've been living for forty years." Helen: "I
know, I must be a biological phenomenon." Jo: "You don't
look forty. You look a sort of well-preserved sixty."
Jo: "I feel like throwing myself in the river."
Geoffrey: "I shouldn't do that, it's full of rubbish."
Geoffrey: "Do you like me more than you don't
like me or do you not like me more than you do?"
Jo: "Now you're being Irish."