# Daisy Fraser — Spoon River Anthology character guide

> Daisy Fraser in Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** old Daisy Fraser

**First appearance:** 0021-daisy-fraser

## Snapshot

The woman Spoon River nods at on the street and whispers about after—yet she alone tallies every bribe the town's respectable men never paid.

## Who they are

Daisy Fraser walks Spoon River's sidewalks through a gauntlet of nods, coughs, and 'there she goes,' her trade known to everyone and forgiven by no one. Yet her epitaph turns the town's moral ledger inside out: Editor Whedon, the Circuit Judge, Revs. Peet and Sibley all kept silent for money and gave nothing back, while Daisy—hauled before Justice Arnett—always paid her ten dollars and costs to the school fund. Her bitter arithmetic of hypocrisy gives the cemetery's early gossip its sharpest edge.

## Relationships

### [Benjamin Pantier](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/spoon_river_anthology_se/characters/benjamin_pantier)

_romantic_

Benjamin Pantier and Daisy Fraser had a secret, tender affair that defied the town's moral judgment.

## In the story

### [Spoon River Anthology](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/spoon_river_anthology_se/chapters/spoon-river-anthology)

The town's outcast woman, whose epitaph exposes the double standards of a community that used her while condemning her.

### [Daisy Fraser](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/spoon_river_anthology_se/chapters/daisy-fraser)

The speaker, a woman publicly scorned and fined for her actions, who points out the hypocrisy of the town's powerful men who evade accountability.

### [Sexsmith the Dentist](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/spoon_river_anthology_se/chapters/sexsmith-the-dentist)

Mentioned as being driven out only when her property was needed by the canning works.

### [A. D. Blood](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/spoon_river_anthology_se/chapters/a-d-blood)

Haled before Justice Arnett by A. D. Blood during his crusade against sin.

### [Jim Brown](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/spoon_river_anthology_se/chapters/jim-brown)

Daisy Fraser is not directly mentioned in this chapter.

### [Jeduthan Hawley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/spoon_river_anthology_se/chapters/jeduthan-hawley)

Jeduthan Hawley pairs himself with Daisy Fraser in death.

### [The Spooniad](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/spoon_river_anthology_se/chapters/the-spooniad)

Appears at the liberal meeting, throws gold and silver to the cause, and is nearly ejected from the hall.

## Links

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