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The First Speaker
An unidentified person of unspecified gender in “The Marlboro Man,” who speaks with her friend, the first speaker, about the Marlboro Man. The second speaker tells her friend about how she saw a special on 60 Minutes about the Marlboro Man, who she claims died of AIDS. Like the first speaker, it is apparent that this person is primarily interested in talking, regardless of the subject, though her interest in the Marlboro Man is a bit more specific, since she reveals that she used to dream that he’d be “the father of [her] children.”
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The Second Speaker Character Timeline in Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
The timeline below shows where the character The Second Speaker appears in Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
The Marlboro Man
...friend Romelia used to live with him. “You know her, in fact,” she says to the other speaker . “The real pretty one with big lips.” In any case, Romelia’s friend apparently lived...
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The second speaker reveals that she learned from 60 Minutes that the Marlboro Man volunteered at an AIDS...
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