Dec 22, 2009
Ruby, a southern woman, has come in from the rain and is drying herself off and talking to herself. The scene is a primitive and remote cabin, perhaps in the author's native Mississippi. That she talks to herself so easily indicates that she is used to being alone. She cries out in astonishment that the sample of coffee on the table is wrapped in newspaper, and the narrator relates that “She must have been lonesome and slow all her life, the way things would take her by surprise.”
Ruby suffers from cabin fever, a depression resulting from a nearly total...
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