Spoon River Anthology · Character
Elijah Browning
A farmer who dies from a stroke while plowing.
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The speaker and protagonist of the chapter, who narrates his allegorical climb from the foot of a mountain to its pinnacle, culminating in a mystical dissolution into truth.
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