Unnamed Country Wives and Daughters

Submitted by sfr on Sat, 2020-02-01 08:40
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3310
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Unnamed Country Wives and Daughters
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Unnamed Country Wives and Daughters
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Yes
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The day the Grand Jury meets to consider Christmas' case in Light in August is a Saturday, which as always means there are a lot of people from the surrounding county in Jefferson; according to the narrator, while the “countrymen in overalls” join the townsmen standing around the courthouse, their wives and daughters of move “in and out of the stores . . . in clumps, slowly and also aimlessly as cattle or clouds" (416).

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