I was really impressed with how she fleshed out the life of the old layabout at the library. This idea that his wife, his kids, a whole world of opportunities for him would just be waiting around for him to retire is both absurd but tragically understandable. It must be tough to go from thinking you'll have all this free time open up to you and finding out that there's nothing left for you there. No clue where it'll all go from here, though...