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Mrs. Clarke is Joe Clarke’s wife. She is a soft-looking, middle-aged woman, whose bust and stomach are always holding a get-together.
She waits on the store sometimes and cries every time he yells at her which he does every time she makes a mistake, which is quite often. She calls her husband “Jody.” They say he used to beat her in the store when he was a young man, but he is not so impatient now. He can wait until he goes home.
She shouts in Church every Sunday and shakes the hand of fellowship with everybody in the Church with her eyes closed, but somehow always misses her husband.