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** Mrs. Charles Bliss believes that her family would have been much better off if she and her husband had divorced.
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** Mrs. Charles Bliss believes that her family would have been much better off if she and her husband had divorced.divorced, and curses the judge and pastor who persuaded her to stay with her husband.
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* BlackWidow: What Dora Williams very well may have been. She speaks of her wealthy former husbands with contempt, and they all seemed to have the unfortunate tendency to die soon after she married them, one of them straight in her arms. She described herself as a "woman, insidious, subtle, versed in the world and rich" until her final husband, an Italian count, apparently turned the tables on her with poison. According to her mother's epitaph, Dora's appearance was considered "strange" by the town.
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* BlackWidow: What Dora Williams very well may have been. She speaks of her wealthy former husbands with contempt, and they all seemed to have the unfortunate tendency to die soon after she married them, one of them straight in her arms. She described herself as a "woman, insidious, subtle, versed in the world and rich" until her final husband, an Italian count, apparently turned the tables on her with poison. According to her mother's epitaph, Dora's appearance disappearance was considered "strange" by the town.
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* UnrequitedTragicMaiden: Mary [=McNeely=], although her lover Daniel M'Cumber regrets his mistake.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Going by the index of names at the beginning, around '''''210'''''. The 1916 edition has 244.
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** Dora Williams, an implied black widow who has gotten very rich off her dearly departed husbands, is poisoned by her final husband, a wealthy Italian count.
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* BlackWidow: What Dora Williams very well may have been. She speaks of her wealthy former husbands with contempt, and they all seemed to have the unfortunate tendency to die soon after she married them, one of them straight in her arms. She described herself as a "woman, insidious, subtle, versed in the world and rich" until her final husband apparently turned the tables on her. According to her mother's epitaph, Dora's appearance was considered "strange" by the town, as one might expect of a woman such as her.
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* BlackWidow: What Dora Williams very well may have been. She speaks of her wealthy former husbands with contempt, and they all seemed to have the unfortunate tendency to die soon after she married them, one of them straight in her arms. She described herself as a "woman, insidious, subtle, versed in the world and rich" until her final husband husband, an Italian count, apparently turned the tables on her. her with poison. According to her mother's epitaph, Dora's appearance was considered "strange" by the town, as one might expect of a woman such as her.town.
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* BlackWidow: What Dora Williams very well may have been. She speaks of her wealthy former husbands with contempt, and they all seemed to have the unfortunate tendency to die soon after she married them, one of them straight in her arms. She described herself as a "woman, insidious, subtle, versed in the world and rich" until her final husband apparently turned the tables on her. According to her mother's epitaph, Dora's appearance was considered "strange" by the town, as one might expect of a woman such as her.
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* OutWithABang: How Dora Williams' second husband died.
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* DeathOfAChild: Johnnie Sayre, Charlie French, and Zenas Witt.
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* InfantImmortality: Subverted with Johnnie Sayre, Charlie French, and Zenas Witt.
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* DefiledForever: Nellie Clark is treated this way by the townspeople after being sexually abused as a child. She eventually marries a man from out of town who doesn't know about it, but he leaves her when he finds out.
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* ImmoralJournalist: Editor Whedon, who takes money to promote political or corporate interests in his paper and dredges up scandals to sell papers (or out of spite).
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* OneHitKill: How Harry Wiley killed Yee Bow.
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* OneHitKill: How Harry Wiley killed Yee Bow.
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** Willard Fluke is broken by his guilt over his daughter Lois' blindness. Lois' own poem shows that she lived a very happy life nevertheless.
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* Fauxreigner: Russian Sonia is genuinely foreign, but not actually Russian (she's German and French).
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* Fauxreigner: {{Fauxreigner}}: Russian Sonia is genuinely foreign, but not actually Russian (she's German and French).
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* MidSuicideRegret: Harold Arnett experiences this after shooting himself. It's too late, though.
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* ReallyGetsAround: This trope appears pretty frequently and is usually used to illustrate the DoubleStandard: Dora Williams, Daisy Fraser, and Aner Clute all have terrible reputations, while Lucius Atherton is TheCasanova (until he gets too old). Reuben Pantier and Ralph Rhodes are also male examples, although they both end up finding it pretty unfulfilling.
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** Amanda Barker views her DeathByChildbirth this way.
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* CommonLawMarriage: Russian Sonia and Patrick Hummer have one, although the townspeople assume they're legally married, which she finds hilarious.
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* Fauxreigner: Russian Sonia is genuinely foreign, but not actually Russian (she's German and French).
* FreeLoveFuture / RaisedByTheCommunity: Mrs. Williams speculates that this wouldn't screw kids up any more than the current system does.
* FreeLoveFuture / RaisedByTheCommunity: Mrs. Williams speculates that this wouldn't screw kids up any more than the current system does.
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** Mary [=McNeely=], Daniel M'Cumber, and Georgine Sand Miner all describe their love triangle very differently.
** Dr. and Mrs. Meyers disagree strongly about the doctor's culpability in the death of Minerva Jones.
** Dr. and Mrs. Meyers disagree strongly about the doctor's culpability in the death of Minerva Jones.
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* JewishComplaining: Barney Hainsfeather died in a fiery train wreck along with another Spoon River resident, after which he was accidentally sent to be buried in Spoon River, and the other man was sent to the Hebrew Cemetery in Chicago. He's not too happy about it.
--> It was bad enough to run a clothing store in this town,
--> But to be buried here—''ach''!
--> It was bad enough to run a clothing store in this town,
--> But to be buried here—''ach''!
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* SnakeOilSalesman: Dr. Siegfried Iseman becomes one when his legitimate medical job doesn't earn enough to support his family.
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** Implied by Jeduthan Hawley, the undertaker, when discussing how people in the town seem to die in pairs (he died in the same week as town prostitute Daisy Fraser).
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* AmoralAttorney: John M. Church.
* AwfulWeddedLife: Ollie and Fisher [=McGee=] still loathe each other, even though they're both dead.
** The Pantiers, who wound up separated.
** Mrs. Charles Bliss believes that her family would have been much better off if she and her husband had divorced.
** The Sibleys.
** The Purkapiles, although in this case the husband is unaware of the wife's actual opinions.
* AwfulWeddedLife: Ollie and Fisher [=McGee=] still loathe each other, even though they're both dead.
** The Pantiers, who wound up separated.
** Mrs. Charles Bliss believes that her family would have been much better off if she and her husband had divorced.
** The Sibleys.
** The Purkapiles, although in this case the husband is unaware of the wife's actual opinions.
* AmoralAttorney: John M. Church.
* AuthorAvatar: Webster Ford, the last epitaph in the collection, was the pen name Masters used when he first began publishing the poems in a literary journal.
* AwfulWeddedLife: Ollie and Fisher [=McGee=] still loathe each other, even though they're both dead.
** The Pantiers, who wound up separated.
** Mrs. Charles Bliss believes that her family would have been much better off if she and her husband had divorced.
** The Sibleys.
** The Purkapiles, although in this case the husband is unaware of the wife's actual opinions.
* AuthorAvatar: Webster Ford, the last epitaph in the collection, was the pen name Masters used when he first began publishing the poems in a literary journal.
* AwfulWeddedLife: Ollie and Fisher [=McGee=] still loathe each other, even though they're both dead.
** The Pantiers, who wound up separated.
** Mrs. Charles Bliss believes that her family would have been much better off if she and her husband had divorced.
** The Sibleys.
** The Purkapiles, although in this case the husband is unaware of the wife's actual opinions.
** Elizabeth Childers and her baby both died in childbirth; her poem is devoted to explaining to the baby all the terrible things they've avoided by dying so young.
** Edith Conant and her baby also died in childbirth.
** Edith Conant and her baby also died in childbirth.
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* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Daisy Fraser presents herself this way.
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* KissOfDeath: Francis Turner has a weak heart after a childhood bout of scarlet fever; it gives out after his first kiss.
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* SonOfAWhore: Benjamin Fraser.
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* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: The eponymous town is fictional, but it's named for a real river and closely based on the Illinois towns of Petersburg and Lewistown and their residents (who, contrary to the trope name, objected to the whole thing quite strongly).
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'''Spoon River Anthology''' is a book of mostly short poems by EdgarLeeMasters, first serialized in 1914 and then collected in volume form in 1915. A lesser-known sequel, ''The New Spoon River,'' appeared in 1924. The sequence takes the form of epitaphs of people who lived in an Illinois community.
It's [[http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1280/pg1280.html available]] on Project Gutenberg, and can also be read online [[http://spoonriveranthology.net/spoon/river/ here]].
It's [[http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1280/pg1280.html available]] on Project Gutenberg, and can also be read online [[http://spoonriveranthology.net/spoon/river/ here]].
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'''Spoon River Anthology''' is a book of mostly short poems by EdgarLeeMasters, Edgar Lee Masters, first serialized in 1914 and then collected in volume form in 1915. A lesser-known sequel, ''The New Spoon River,'' appeared in 1924. The sequence takes the form of epitaphs of people who lived in an Illinois community.
community. It's [[http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1280/pg1280.html available]] on Project Gutenberg, and can also be read online [[http://spoonriveranthology.net/spoon/river/ here]].
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* TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed: Willard Fluke's narrative notes that after sleeping with a woman named Cleopatra, many of the local men died "in some hideous form." As Willard's own daughter was born blind, he's likely describing syphillis.
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* TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed: Willard Fluke's narrative notes that after sleeping with a woman named Cleopatra, many of the local men died "in some hideous form." As Willard's own daughter was born blind, he's likely describing syphillis. syphilis.
