Throughout the latter half of the poem, Bliss also addresses how the divorce would affect her children. Contrary to life in urban areas or bigger cities where the general living experience is more secularized, religion is highly regarded in small towns such as Stark County, Illinois. These earlier sentences in the poem also show how the opinions of preachers were just as respected as the opinions of judges in the judicial court. This illustrates the common American value of a complete, happy family, in which every decision is decided upon “For the sake of the children”. Similarly, the strongest concern that is voiced, such as by Reverend Wiley and Judge Somers, is towards the wellbeing of the children. Her existence, so to speak, is therefore very much tied to her husband and their marriage. Charles Bliss” as the persona has no identity or name of her own. This is particularly evident even through the title of the poem “Mrs. While divorce rates had begun to rise by the 1910s, this act of separation was still mostly unheard of and considered blasphemous in the rural areas of the United States. Charles Bliss” (41) discusses the struggles of divorce on both the couple and their children. In Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology, the poem entitled “Mrs.
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