# Elijah Browning — Spoon River Anthology character guide

> Elijah Browning in Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0245-elijah-browning

## Who they are

A farmer who dies from a stroke while plowing.

## In the story

### [Elijah Browning](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/spoon_river_anthology_se/chapters/elijah-browning)

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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