"I come home to an empty room. I don't even have a dog.... No, this is not the kind of life I would choose. If a man had a little piece of land or
something, a farm, or well... anyway, you've got to have something. You sit down in a place like this, you grit your teeth, you follow me? So
many of them are doing that, they sit down, they don't know what to do, they go out. I see 'em in the middle of the night, they take a walk.
Don't know what to do. Have no home environment, don't have a dog, don't have nothing ... just a big zero."
-quoted in Division Street: America
What does he mean when he says: "You sit down in a place like this, you grit your teeth..."?
