“Mr. Kessler, you know, was in the army. And he drew 6 dollars a month as a pension. And he stood on the corner talking politics. Or sat at home reading Grant’s Memoirs’”(66). That was Mr Kessler but there was also a Mrs. Kessler. She was a simple women who lived in the small town of Spoon River. Spoon River was a place full of the rich, but also a town full of people just trying to get by. It was a beautiful place, but only in certain parts of town. You had your rich and you had your poor. Every year during the Fall Harvest was a celebration! Mrs. Kessler knew she had to make the perfect costume for that white lady who would bitch and bitch about everything, but she provided food on the table for the Kessler’s 7 children. Mrs Kessler wasn’t educated like the Judge or Mayor of Spoon River, but she could make the best dress or costume in town. “And there are stains that baffle soap”(66). There was no stain that baffled Mrs. Kessler. There was times that she was blamed for a spoiled dress! I remember one time Mrs Kessler so angry at a women who was a size 8 but insisted she was a size 2. I remember Mrs Kessler saying, “Hankerchiefs, and napery, have there secrets--”(66). I never really knew what Mrs. Kessler meant by that, but somehow, someway, that girl who was size 8 fitted into that size two dress! And I remembered Mrs. Kessler just shook her head, but when you have children to feed all you just keep your mouth shut. That’s what Mrs. Kessler always told me, but in other words “And I supported the family by washing”(66).