The Lincoln Highway: 5. Ulysses (2) Summary & Analysis

Ulysses finds himself back in the coffin and fights to get out. While he does, he hears Billy’s voice, and remembers where he is. He wills himself to consciousness and searches for Billy and Pastor John. He finds John with the coin collection and hits him with his own shovel. Billy emerges and helps tend to Ulysses’s wound, and Ulysses suggests that they don’t report the incident to Emmett, who already has too much on his mind. Ulysses leaves Billy, promising that he will bring Pastor John to the police. Instead, he drags him up an outdoor staircase and lets him fall down the stairs to a river.