Who is Joseph from London Transports and what is their importance? London_Transports English & Literature Joseph | London Transports

A sad-faced lonely, wealthy widower, a childless corporate lawyer, and, at age forty-five, twenty years Vera's senior, Joseph is deemed by giggling workers in the hotel gift shop to be an ideal catch. He has lived in the hotel for three years, wants to remarry, and is attracted to shy, innocent Vera. He finds this attractive and begins painting word pictures of life together, fixing up a dream house. They are married in a smaller service to which she does not invite her family. Joseph is frustrated by the slow progress in furnishing the fourteen-room house, but Vera refuses consultants and designers. Two years later it still looks like they have just moved in. Joseph is frustrated. He recalls wistfully the comfort and fine food in the hotel. He wonders if Vera has some nervous trouble but then admonishes himself for being selfish and makes do.