Spoon River Anthology · Character
Henry Phipps
A soldier who dies in the war, remembered for his letters home.
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Narrator and subject; Sunday school superintendent and puppet president, ruined by bank collapse and diagnosed with cancer.
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- Diverse Spoon River community
- Protagonist
- Tragic societal outcasts
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