Spoon River Anthology · Character
Lucinda Matlock
Ninety-six years of spinning, weaving, childbearing, and dancing—she outlived seven of her twelve children and still called life sweet.
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A voice of resilience who reflects on a long life of hard work and loss, challenging the younger generation's complaints.
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Lucinda Matlock married Thomas and settled into a long life of household labor—spinning, weaving, baking, raising twelve children, burying seven of them. She danced at the firemen's ball at eighty, and when old age…
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Adam Weirauch’s emotional and psychological peak occurs when he abandons his principles, declaring “to hell wi…
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