His death, at about age 70, follows a blow to the head from a falling docket (a schedule of court cases). Justice Arnett is one of the long-serving judges in Spoon River. Though the bank failure ruins the lives of several other villagers, Rhodes escapes its worst consequences.
He is the president of the town's bank until its failure, which Ralph Rhodes, his son, later reveals is caused by ill-considered loans his father gave him. Thomas Rhodes is one of Spoon River's political and economic leaders. She bears a son, Benjamin Fraser, to Benjamin Pantier. In her own monologue, she attacks the town's leaders as hypocritical for seeing her-and not themselves-as a moral threat to Spoon River. Her constant appearances in the courthouse and the menfolk's low opinion of her suggest that Daisy is a prostitute. He uses his small-town newspaper as a bully pulpit to intimidate his enemies and to defend his friends, who are typically also his paymasters.ĭaisy Fraser is mentioned frequently throughout the Anthology, sometimes with pity and sometimes with contempt. By his own admission, Whedon is less interested in truth than in power, and his motives for "see every side" of an issue are self-interested ones. Most disappointed in Blood is his once-loyal follower, Robert Southey Burke.Įditor Whedon is the man behind the Argus, Spoon River's conservative newspaper, which is named for the many-eyed giant of Greek myth. From these poems, a portrait of Blood emerges as a greedy and vain man who is more interested in consolidating his own power than in improving the town. He is also mentioned by several of his neighbors in their monologues. Blood gets the chance to speak for himself in a self-titled poetic monologue. Like the other residents of Spoon River, A.D.
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