Tuesday, August 09, 2011

Great Regulars: The speaker, Dorcas Gustine, begins his

monologue by asserting that the villagers of Spoon River did not particularly care for him. He then offers his belief that they did not like him because he "spoke [his] mind."

He did not allow any transgression against him to go unchallenged. He calls his self-defense "plain remonstrance," which implies that he is certain that he was simply defending himself with honesty. Because of his habit of meeting every slight with a response, he declares that he was, therefore, able to go about "hiding nor nurturing/Nor secret griefs nor grudges."

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Edgar Lee Masters' Dorcas Gustine

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