Unnamed Women Married by J.P.s

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Unnamed Women Married by J.P.s
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Unnamed Women Married by J.P.s
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White
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Female
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MultiClass Group
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Peripheral
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Alive
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Mr. Compson creates this 'character' when he interrupts his reconstruction of Sutpen and Ellen's wedding to generalize about women who never had formal weddings: "women who were married by tobacco-chewing j[ustices of the] p[eace]s in country courthouses or by ministers waked after midnight" (37). According to his misogynistic assertion, it is the longing of these women for a more ceremonial wedding that is the cause of "most divorces" (37).

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