Unnamed Countrywomen

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3305
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Unnamed Countrywomen
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Unnamed Countrywomen
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
Biography: 

In The Town, Gavin refers to the women - groups of "four or five or six ladies in sunbonnets" who live on "back-country roads" (240) - as the customers to whom Ratliff sells sewing machines, and from whom he has learned how to listen. Gavin's use of "ladies" is generous; these are the wives of the poor farmers who inhabit Yoknapatawpha's "back-country" in the fictions.

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