Dec 22, 2009
Mrs. Fate Rainey is talking to an implied listener, a visiting stranger in Morgana, Mississippi. After Snowdie McLain comes for her butter and leaves, Mrs. Rainey begins to tell Snowdie's unusual story. It is the story of how badly King McLain treats his wife and how well she takes it, a private story, though everyone knows it. “But,” Mrs. Rainey says, “I could almost bring myself to talk about it—to a passer-by, that will never see her again, or me either.” Mrs. Rainey then relates several astonishing incidents from Snowdie's married life.
First, she...
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