The Road to Wigan Pier
Who is Mr. Reilly and the Injured Scotch Miner from The Road to Wigan Pier and what is their importance?
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The two men indicated are lodgers in the Brookers' boardinghouse and share a single room with Orwell. The room contains four beds—one of which is a double bed and fairly good quality. That bed is reserved for transient boarders, however—the three long-term boards sleep in the other single beds. Orwell reports the room to smell like a ferret's cage. Reilly is an elderly man and works as a surface mechanic at the Wigan colliery. He departs for work at 5:00 a.m. and little biographical data are offered about him. The Scotch miner was injured and permanently disabled; he had been pinned by a large chunk of stone in the mine and remained thus pinned for many hours.