Minerva Jones Summary

What I learned about "Minerva Jones" by Edgar Lee Masters, is that in the epitaph is that she wrote poems in her village and she had a "heavy body, cock-eye, and rolling walk." The people Jones speaks about are the people in her village and the relationships and interactions that are evident are very horrible as Jones explains how a man named "Butch" Weldy and Doctor Meyers were responsible of her death. Some of the things this lets us know about the poet's view of small-town American culture is that people were willing to make fun of and/or kill someone because of the way they looked and/or walked.
What I learned about "Butch"Weldy" by Edgar Lee Masters, is that after he became religious, he got "a job in the canning works." The people Weldy mentions are The Circuit Judge and Old Rhodes' son. What happens to Weldy is that he was working in the canning works and he was on top of a ladder, the tank that he was filling with gasoline exploded and he came off with both of his legs broken and his eyes burned off, he explains that someone must have left the blow-fire in the tank going. The judge told him that whoever did it was a "fellow-servant" of Weldy so Old Rhodes' son couldn't pay him but Weldy didn't know who it was. What this says about the poet's views on American culture and the values of this time is that those people who do …show more content…
Meyers" by Edgar Lee Masters, is that Mrs. Meyers felt bad for Doctor Meyers as she knows that he was only trying to help Minerva. Mrs. Meyers' relationship with the other Spoon River residents is that she knows who Minerva is and that she was married with Doctor Meyers. Her opinion of what her husband did was that she showed sympathy as she says "He had broken the law human and divine," she says that because he was trying to help Minerva. What I can infer about society's values based on this is how people would react to actions of "helping" a person when it is done a certain way as explained in the previous