mrs hussey
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- appearance
- carries mustard-pot and vinegar-cruet
- description
- The landlady of the lodging house where Ishmael and Queequeg stay, known for her practical nature, her attentiveness to her property, and her quick temper.
- location
- inn
- occupation
- innkeeper
- personality
- practical, protective of property
- personality_trait
- scolding
- reaction_to_queequeg
- concerned
- relationship
- wife of Hosea Hussey
- role
- landlady
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- preventsNarrator
- description
- Mrs. Hussey attempts to prevent the narrator from breaking down her premises.
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- the landlady caught at me, again vowing I should not break down her premises
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- 2026-03-02T00:02:08.237Z
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- scoldsMan in purple woollen shirt
- description
- Mrs. Hussey is actively engaged in a brisk scolding of the man wearing a purple woollen shirt.
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- carrying on a brisk scolding with a man in a purple woollen shirt.
- servesClam Chowder
- description
- Mrs. Hussey offers clam chowder as a supper option to her guests at the Try Pots.
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- turned round to us and said—“Clam or Cod?
- servesCod Chowder
- description
- Mrs. Hussey offers cod chowder as a supper option, which Ishmael later requests.
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- turned round to us and said—“Clam or Cod?
- bansHarpoon
- description
- Mrs. Hussey prohibits harpoons from being brought into the guest chambers of the Try Pots due to a past fatal incident.
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- she allowed no harpoon in her chambers.
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- 2026-03-02T00:02:08.214Z
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- took_possession_ofQueequeg's Harpoon
- description
- Mrs. Hussey, the landlady, had temporarily taken possession of Queequeg's harpoon the evening before.
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- the landlady the evening previous had taken from him, before our mounting to the chamber. That’s strange, thought I;
- scoldsLittle Black Boy
- description
- Mrs. Hussey, the landlady, was scolding a young boy while attending to other duties.
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- source_text
- scolding her little black boy meantime.
- mentions_past_incident_involvingStiggs
- description
- Mrs. Hussey brings up the name of 'unfort'nate Stiggs' in the context of a potential suicide, implying a similar past incident.
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- It’s unfort’nate Stiggs done over again—there goes another counterpane—God pity his poor mother!—it will be the ruin of my house.
- sendsBetty
- description
- Mrs. Hussey dispatches Betty to find Snarles the Painter.
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- there, Betty, go to Snarles the Painter, and tell him to paint me a sign,
- commissionsSnarles the Painter
- description
- Mrs. Hussey intends to hire Snarles the Painter to create a sign for her establishment.
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- source_text
- tell him to paint me a sign, with—“no suicides permitted here, and no smoking in the parlor;”—might as well kill both birds at once.
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- extracted_at
- 2026-03-02T00:04:18.061Z
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