that entails. But the conversion perhaps comes too easily for Averilla and causes the reader to suspect her sincerity. Other questions arise as well: Is Miles deliberately presenting Averilla as an unreliable narrator? Is she positing this character as an archetype of the Appalachian woman who must play a role of subservience because she has no other option in the patriarchal culture she lives in?
. . .
Five preachers, in the intervals of a brush-meeting on Puncheon Camp Creek, were enjoying the hospitality of Brother Zack Lowry, whose big log house was near the place of meeting. Aunt Sa’Jane, the house-mother, quick and tireless as an ant despite her fifty-odd years, was clearing the dinner from the table in the open entry, and the men, sitting on the long porch, told stories of past revivals.
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