Has she ever in her life been married, dated anyone, or even get laid. Lol
She sure seemed to turn off an awful lot of men.
Mr. Bundles didn't want her and Warbucks definitely didn't. Lol
No wonder she was so bitter. Hahaha
that was probably what made her cranky the most. She was never hit on in the very beginning then when she couldn't land a man she took up the job as head of the orphanage.
As time goes by and taking care of children who aren't her own lead her to the bottle to know numb the emptiness in her life. Becoming more of a drunk would end up chasing off the men in her life she needed to fulfill her "needs."
Now it all makes sense now if you can put it into perspective. A 1930s middle aged unmarried, perhaps virgin, woman who urns for male companionship and a family of her own who doesn't get it would start to deteriorate into this state of drunken madness and spite state.
I don't think she could get married in that era and still have her job. Because it was the depression, jobs were scarce. It would have gone to a woman who needed it.
She is a caricature of the single 'career' woman--who unlike the respectable Grace Farrell--is also an ethnic stereotype (the drunken working-class Irish person).
In the novella I used to read as a kid it said that the cop that brought Annie back to the orphanage would stop by now and then and have a drink with her. Mr. Warbucks also mentions that he has photos of her dancing in the speakeasies "with some old geeser called Little Ceasar."
"The end of the shoelace is called the...IT DOESN'T MATTER!"
I always kind of thought Miss Hannigan was supposed to be a floozie.
To me it seemed like she and Mr. Bundles have some kind of regular tryst. If I remember right, Mr. Bundles' line is "Not today, Miss Hannigan." because he's running behind. Before he leaves, he kisses her neck and says that she's his kind of woman, so obviously there's some kind of romantic subtext there.
There's also the lyric in Sign that she's been seen dancing in her scanties (underwear) with an older man.
pretty obvious she hadn't been married. but she was definitely no virgin. her and the laundry guy had a thing going and he wasn't the only one am sure
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