He threatens to kill Maybe-Boyfriend if she does not stop dating him.
One evening, Young Woman is walking home from an evening French class when Milkman approaches her. Maybe-Boyfriend manages to mostly dispel these ungrounded suspicions, as the decal is not his.
People become suspicious of his political leanings, as the body of the car had a British flag decal on it. Maybe-Boyfriend works as a mechanic, and one day, he brings home a car part from a rare and valuable car. She refers to him as Maybe-Boyfriend, for they have been dating for about a year but have never formally agreed that they are boyfriend and girlfriend. The man whom Young Woman is actually dating is a car mechanic of about her age, or maybe a little older. They judge her harshly, for they believe that she is having sex out of wedlock with Milkman. The judgmental townspeople immediately misread the situation and believe that Young Woman is in a consensual relationship with Milkman. He is not an actual Milkman but is simply called Milkman by the townspeople. One day, a local man known as Milkman begins stalking her. She lives with her widowed mother and younger sisters. The novel’s unnamed protagonist (whom we will call Young Woman) is an 18-year-old woman living in the town. Military violence sometimes damages the town’s infrastructure and harms or kills townspeople. The townspeople are allied with Ireland in the conflict. The story takes place in a town somewhere near the northern region. The novel is set in 1970s Ireland during the Troubles, an irregular military conflict between Ireland and the separatists of England-back Northern Ireland. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Burns, Anna.
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