Unnamed Relatives of Mrs. Hightower

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Unnamed Relatives of Mrs. Hightower
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White
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Multi Gender Group
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Middle Class
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Peripheral
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Alive
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Hightower's wife is the only child of "one of the ministers, the teachers" in the seminary he attends (479), but this icon represents the imaginary "family" that Hightower invents to explain his wife's periodical absences in Memphis. He tells the congregation she has gone to visit them "downstate somewhere" (63).

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