AtD translation: one of the boys throws me a look

[Mike Jing]

I thought it was one of his sons first, but then I wasn't so sure. Now I
think that's still the most likely case.

Thank you both for replying.

On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 3:45 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> That might be right, but the whole context of this pretty important
> passage is his problems with his  anger at his family.  Coworkers aren’t
> mentioned at all.
>
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 3:17 PM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>
>> Yes I think the one of the boys would be a coworker aware of Lake's
>> doings in town and the they is his family that he was driving away with his
>> anger.
>>
>> > On Jan 26, 2022, at 1:32 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > P672.36-673.3   “But I sold my anger too cheap, didn’t understand how
>> > precious it was, how I was wasting it, letting it leak away, yelling at
>> the
>> > wrong people, May, the kids, swore each time I wouldn’t, never cared to
>> > pray but started praying for that, knew I had to keep it under some lid,
>> > save it at least for the damned owners, but then Lake sneaks off into
>> town,
>> > lies about it, one of the boys throws me a look, some days that’s all it
>> > needs is a look, and I’m screamin again, and they’re that much further
>> > away, and I don’t know how to call back any of it. . . .”
>> >
>> > Would "one of the boys" be one of the co-workers? And who are "they" in
>> > "and they’re that much further away"?
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