Reading with an eye for quotation marks
Read the following passage about the painter Georgia O’Keeffe, and pay particular attention to the use of quotation marks. What effect is created by the author’s use of quotation marks with hardness, crustiness, and crusty? How do the quotations by O’Keeffe help support the author’s description of her?
“Hardness” has not been in our century a quality much admired in women, nor in the past twenty years has it even been in official favor for men. When hardness surfaces in the very old we tend to transform it into “crustiness” or eccentricity, some tonic pepperiness to be indulged at a distance. On the evidence of her work and what she has said about it, Georgia O’Keeffe is neither “crusty” nor eccentric. She is simply hard, a straight shooter, a woman clean of received wisdom and open to what she sees. This is a woman who could early on dismiss most of her contemporaries as “dreamy,” and would later single out one she liked as “a very poor painter.” (And then add, apparently by way of softening the judgment: “I guess he wasn’t a painter at all. He had no courage and I believe that to create one’s own world in any of the arts takes courage.”) This is a woman who in 1939 could advise her admirers that they were missing her point, that their appreciation of her famous flowers was merely sentimental. “When I paint a red hill,” she observed coolly in the catalogue for an exhibition that year, “you say it is too bad that I don’t always paint flowers. A flower touches almost everyone’s heart. A red hill doesn’t touch everyone’s heart.”
—JOAN DIDION, “Georgia O’Keeffe”
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Read the following passage about the painter Georgia O’Keeffe, and pay particular attention to the use of quotation marks. What effect is created...
Thinking about your own use of quotation marks
Choose a topic that is of interest on your campus, and interview one of your friends about it. On the basis of your notes from the interview, write two or three paragraphs about your friend’s views, using several direct quotations that support the points you are making. Then see how closely you followed the conventions for quotation marks explained in this chapter. Note any usages that caused you problems.
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Choose a topic that is of interest on your campus, and interview one of your friends about it. On the basis of your notes from the interview,...