Who is Philip Bradford from Hide & Seek: A Novel and what is their importance? Hide_&_Seek:_A_Novel English & Literature Philip Bradford | Hide & Seek: A Novel

Philip Bradford joined the army to become a fighting soldier. However, Philip was assigned to be a math teacher at West Point instead. This causes Philip to become an angry man who has no outlet for this anger. Philip begins to beat his wife early in their marriage, and the beatings only grow worse as Philip's drinking habit increases. Eventually Philip gets it into his head that he needs to kill his wife and child. Maggie hides with their three-year-old daughter, but Philip finds them. Maggie is forced to kill Philip in self defense. This death is resolved and settled in West Point at the time in which it occurs. However, years later, Maggie is again accused of shooting her husband. When this happens, the press digs up Philip's murder and accuse Maggie in the press of being a black widow.