Mrs. Hines

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Mrs. Hines
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Hines, Mrs.
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Female
Class: 
Lower Class
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Secondary
Vitality: 
Alive
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Mrs. Hines, the mother of Milly and grandmother of Joe Christmas, is described as "a dumpy, fat little woman with a round face like dirty and unovened dough, and a tight screw of scant hair" (346). Early on, she is a much less vivid character than her dominating husband, whose religious fanaticism seems to control them both. Later, after she realizes that Joe Christmas is the grandson whom her husband had taken from her thirty-five years earlier, she takes charge of her husband, manages to visit Joe in jail, and seeks assistance on Joe's behalf.

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