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• Returns home from work with his friend Bono.
• Sips gin with Bono and talks about how he's contesting the racial segregation at work.
• Denies being interested in Alberta when Bono brings it up.
• Talks about how much he loves his wife, Rose.
• Says he's against Cory getting a football scholarship.
• Complains that he wouldn't have a house without his brother Gabriel's disability check.
• Bemoans the fact that racism kept him from playing pro baseball.
• Tells a story about how he wrestled Death.
• Tells a story about how he met the Devil.
• Gives Lyons a hard time about borrowing ten dollars.
• Criticizes Rose for playing the numbers.
• Fusses because Cory isn't around to help build the fence.
• Heads off to Taylors' to listen to the game.
• Starts building the fence with Cory.
• Tells his son he doesn't want him to play football.
• Argues that pro sports are still too racist.
• Lectures his son that he doesn't have to like him; he only has to provide for him.
• Comes home celebrating because he's broken the racial barrier at work by becoming a driver.
• Gives Lyons a hard time when he pays back the ten dollars he borrowed.
• Refuses to go hear Lyons play music.
• Tells the story of a violent fight he and his father got into on the day Troy left home.
• Talks about living in a shack when he first came to Pittsburgh and had to steal to get by.
• Recounts how he ended up in prison for killing a man.
• Threatens Cory when he comes home angry about his father's ending his football dreams.
• Returns from bailing Gabriel out of jail.
• Admits to Rose that he's been having an affair with Alberta and that he's gotten the woman pregnant.
• Roughly grabs Rose's arm.
• Gets knocked down by Cory.
• Threatens his son again.
• Denies putting Gabriel in a mental hospital just for the check.
• Taunts Death when he learns that Alberta died in childbirth.
• Asks Rose to help raise Raynell, his newborn daughter.
• Has an awkward conversation with Bono, whom he hasn't seen in a while.
• Gets into a big fight with Cory, complete with baseball bat.
• Wins the fight with his son.
• Kicks Cory out of the house.
• Taunts Death again.
• Dies seven years later.