The book takes place in 1913. They describe this brief character as being a young woman with abnormally pink cheeks, and abnormally yellow hair. She is described as wearing high heels and cheap jewelry. She is also constantly saying how folks like Ms. Polly and the town don’t mingle with folks like hers. And how if they did mingle with them, perhaps there wouldn’t be as many folks like hers around.
At first I thought that perhaps she was a showgirl or maybe a courtesan type person. But it mentioned that she was married with children and she refers to herself as Mrs. Tom Payson.
Does anyone know what her “bad reputation” they describe might be and what she is implied to be in the book?
by Megan56789000
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Abnormally pink cheeks seems to imply that she might be a drunk? And if she was more accepted into the town, she wouldn’t be as inclined to drink?
I’m not familiar with the text in question, but that’s my guess based on what you’ve provided here.