Chap 9

[Mark Kohut]

Horst comes "home"; kids do love him still. Maxine
is not bitter, morally generous soul she is.

Here is one sly way TRP indicts the America he lives in:
'built like a battleship", [p95, end of chapter] that war ship simile, soon
to be attacked
by planes at war. Foreshadowing.

Remember the bourgeois-pleasing cruise ship(s) in AtD that are
also battleships? The US middle class is complicit in the vehicles of war.