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1. What is it that Will Barrett realizes when he falls down during the golf game at the opening of the novel?

Will realizes after falling down on the golf course that life is a farce, and he decides to shoot himself.

2. What happens when Will gets home from the Sunday golf game and sits in his garage?

He has the realization that people aren't fully themselves, and someone shoots a shotgun into the garage.

3. Why doesn't Will do anything about the poacher on his land?

Will doesn't do anything about the poacher on his land because he has known Ewell McBee, the poacher, most of his life.

4. What is the first time Will Barrett's deceased wife is mentioned?

When Will is sitting in the garage after firing his Luger into the gorge, the narrator mentions that Will is staring at a cat sitting under his wife's car, which has been sitting there for six months since she died.

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