Spoon River Anthology Summary
Edgar Lee Masters

Spoon River Anthology Summary

Ruben Pantierappears in Page 39

Ruben Pantier, son of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Pantier, addresses his epitaph to Emily Sparks, whose prayers for him, he says, "were not wasted." Ruben says the milliner's daughter made trouble for him and so he left Spoon River and traveled out into the world becoming intimate with women and wine. Ruben tells a particular story of an encounter he had one night in the Rue de Rivoli with a...

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