Jerome Johnson is Avey's dead husband in Praisesong for the Widow. Jerome is what Avey called her husband after he "changed" into a different person when he became successful. Avey misses the person that he used to be, the person that made special time for her, with his dances and his singing, and his talking to her while making love. Jerome Johnson didn't do that, and she misses that when she is remembering in the hotel after she jumped board from the cruise ship. Avey screams in her mind "Too much", meaning too much trying to be something else, too much being something he wasn't truly mean to be. She misses Jay (the person her husband used to be), and she calls her husband, in her mind, Jerome Johnson.
Stephanie Lestelle
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