They talk of terrible things sometimes, and you know that they will be his downfall. Rather, there's a quietness to him that's unsettling – apart from inside his head, where George and Fred go at it great guns, which is even worse. We see Dawes' life, then, as small as it is: his wife, Mary, and their otherwise all-too-empty house his job running an industrial laundry his terrifyingly empty relationships with others. There's something simmering and we all know that simmering emotions eventually boil over. Dawes is a broken man, a tired and angry man, who hides everything from those around him. One more thing we know, pretty much from the beginning: he has no intention of performing said relocations. The new road will go right through his house and his workplace both, and he's the man who has to sort out the relocation. We know this, and we know that he's a bit unhinged – he has an internal duologue going on throughout the book, between characters called George and Fred – and that he doesn't much like the plans for a freeway extension that are about to be actioned. Roadwork begins with Barton George Dawes buying guns.
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