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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