It’s clear from the start that he has his mind set on some sort of grand act to stand up for what he loves, but the way he treats those around him on his journey truly got under my skin. Bart makes a lot of puzzling decisions in the wake of learning that his home is going to be destroyed. There were times when I liked Bart and times when I really couldn’t start his character. King delicately peels back the layers into Bart’s psyche as the date for his home’s demolition gets closer and closer. Over the years he has experienced hardships, but nothing could prepare him for his reaction to the local highway being extended straight through everything he loves. For years Bart has been living the American dream: moving up the corporate ladder, owning a home, marrying a loving woman. ROADWORK takes the reader on a trip into the mind of Bart, who is clearly losing his sense of reality. As the demolition gets closer to his house, Bart’s grasp on reality slips further and further away.
As a result of the highway’s extension, Bart’s starting to lose his mind and is suddenly no longer the mild-mannered man his friends and family thought they knew. The home where he has built a lifetime of memories is going to be demolished. The laundry plant where Bart started his career needs to be relocated.
Highway 784 is being extended straight through Bart’s town and will ruin everything he holds dear. ROADWORK | Stephen King as Richard BachmanĠ5.2016 (first published 03.1981) | Gallery Booksīarton Dawes feels like he’s losing everything he’s worked his whole life for.
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