# Mrs. Clark — The Mule-Bone character guide

> Mrs. Clark in The Mule-Bone by Langston Hughes.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Mrs. Clark De Mayor, Mrs. Clark Somebody, Mist ' Clark

**First appearance:** 0002-act-i

## Snapshot

The mayor's wife, fat and flabby with a high-pitched voice, Mrs. Clark rules the domestic side of Eatonville's first family with fuss and opinion.

## Who they are

As Joe Clark's wife, she occupies the peculiar position of being married to the store, the post office, and the mayor all at once, which makes her both privileged and perpetually put-upon. Her high-pitched voice and flabby dignity are comic, but they also signal a woman alert to rank and eager to defend it. She matters to the early social texture of the play, one of the wives whose standards and grudges shape how the town judges its young men and women.

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