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The Ponder Heart (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)

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Edna Earle Ponder, a middle-aged, unmarried woman, the last of the Ponder family. She narrates the events to a guest at the Beulah Hotel, which she was given by her Uncle Daniel fifteen years ago. She is garrulous and good-humored, and she sees herself as smart. She is also perceptive regarding people’s character. A “good Presbyterian” with a sense of civic responsibility (she runs the rummage sale held to benefit black people), she does not participate in small-town sectarian bickering. She sees Bonnie Dee for the “little thing with yellow, fluffy...

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