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Joe Christmas
Lena Grove is a young woman from Alabama who becomes pregnant by Lucas Burch and later has his baby. Lucas leaves her and promises to send word for her to join him, but when no message arrives, she sets off by herself. This illustrates Lena’s fearless, independent, yet also somewhat naïve personality. Throughout the book, she remains adamant that she will find Lucas and that they will be together, even in the face of mounting evidence to the contrary. She also refuses the advances of Byron, despite the fact that he is a far more kind, devoted, and responsible person than Lucas. Lena ends up in a kind of purgatory, unable to let go of her quest to find Lucas, even though the narrator comments that finding him is perhaps not even her real aim.
Lena Grove Quotes in Light in August
The Light in August quotes below are all either spoken by Lena Grove or refer to Lena Grove. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 2
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Yes, ma’am. Joe Brown. But I reckon that may be his right name. Because when you think of a fellow named Joe Brown, you think of a bigmouthed fellow that’s always laughing and talking loud. And so I reckon that is his right name, even if Joe Brown does seem a little kind of too quick and too easy for a natural name, somehow.
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Lena Grove Quotes in Light in August
The Light in August quotes below are all either spoken by Lena Grove or refer to Lena Grove. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 2
Quotes
Yes, ma’am. Joe Brown. But I reckon that may be his right name. Because when you think of a fellow named Joe Brown, you think of a bigmouthed fellow that’s always laughing and talking loud. And so I reckon that is his right name, even if Joe Brown does seem a little kind of too quick and too easy for a natural name, somehow.
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