Mrs. Bowles
Mrs.
The book
Who they are in the book
Spoiler-freeMrs. Bowles is another of Mildred’s friends. She speaks casually about children, politics, and failed marriages and reacts to the poem with hostility. She represents a culture trained to treat emotional disturbance as an attack. Her later fate is unknown and, like Mildred, she may have remained in the city.
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