Unnamed Women in Pascagoula

The female clientele at the "joint" where Linda takes Gavin would be more surprised by an ear trumpet than a "G string" (275). They are presumably, like Linda, women who work in the shipyard because the male population has gone to fight in the war; the reference to the "G string" as well as the noise in the "joint" is the narrative's way of implying how untraditional, by the standards of southern gentility, is their behavior and appearance.