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The chapter opens with Morrison’s setting a scene or a vignette. The novel’s major characters, not necessarily in a direct and obvious way, are included in this vignette. Here are some of them:Mr. SmithRuth (Foster) Dead, the doctor’s daughter, is the pregnant women who will give birth in Mercy Hospital. 5 What is unprecedented about this birth?Ruth Foster’s two daughters with rose petals: Lena Dead and First Corinthians Dead 5Pilate Dead woman in knitted navy cap, singing What is she singing? 6, 19Mrs. Bains, stout woman, Guitar’s grandmother 7Milkman Dead 9Guitar, cat-eyed boy 7Freddie, 14, 23, 25Porter 24, 25Reba (daughter) and Hagar (granddaughter) of Pilate Dead

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