# Samuel Gardner — Spoon River Anthology character guide

> Samuel Gardner in Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0219-samuel-gardner

## Who they are

A farmer who dies from a heart attack while plowing.

## In the story

### [Samuel Gardner](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/spoon_river_anthology_se/chapters/samuel-gardner)

The speaker and subject of the chapter, a greenhouse keeper who contemplates the elm tree's growth as a metaphor for human life.

### [Dow Kritt](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/spoon_river_anthology_se/chapters/dow-kritt)

Mentioned as the owner of a flourishing elm, contrasted with Dow's dying tree.

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