The Night Watchman: Snares Summary & Analysis

Patrice and Pokey set snares outside. They walk back up to Vera’s cabin. After he looks in the window, Pokey says that someone is sleeping inside. Patrice gets Thomas and Wood Mountain, and the three of them go back to the cabin. When they go in, from the person’s shoes, Patrice knows that it’s her father and that he has died. When Patrice tells her mother, she looks away. Patrice knows her mother doesn’t want Patrice to see the relief as it spreads over her face. The next morning, Patrice and Valentine get into a fight about who will sit in the front seat of Doris’s car. Patrice also realizes that her dread is gone and that it left when her father died. She hadn’t realized before how heavy it was.