[1][2][3] "Aunt Jane", an elderly spinster, was a recurring character in Lida Obenchain's short stories.
She told the experiences of the people in a rural southern town named Goshen to a younger woman visitor who relayed them to the reader.
This type of rhetorical device, called a "double narrative", was a common form of storytelling in this era.
Aunt Jane spoke with a heavy regional dialect and a folksy style.
She tells of the problems facing women of her time with imagery and symbolism taken from the domestic arts of sewing, cooking, and gardening.