Saint Maybe Chapter Summary & Analysis - Chapter 5: People Who Don't Know the Answers Summary

Chapter 5: People Who Don't Know the Answers Summary

Doug Bedloe is bored during his retirement. Whenever he tries to help with the children, he does something wrong, and Ian or Bee takes over. Doug's few efforts to help are ineffectual, as when he tries to mop the muddy kitchen floor without sweeping it first. Initially, Doug planned to volunteer coaching baseball, but soon he realizes he has been working with adolescents for a lifetime. Adolescents are shallow, and Doug is tired of them. Doug really misses Danny. Of his own three children, Danny was the only one Doug could really talk to.

The only thing Doug really enjoys these days is fixing things, but not enough things get broken to keep him busy. One day, Doug notices one of the accident- prone foreigners on the roof, trying to pass a wire into the upstairs window. When Doug offers to help, the foreigner answers "Yes, please to enter the...
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