dawn drills; Schtitt’s second world (pp. 452–453)
thick old white alpaca tennis jacket that had been his father’s and has to be rolled up at the sleeves
Context
Hal drills at dawn inside his dead father's coat — an old white alpaca jacket that doesn't fit, sleeves rolled up on a boy still growing into a man who is gone. It's a quiet ghost-father image, the son literally wearing the absent king, and the scene keeps pressing on it: Schtitt twice tags Hal with the epithet "revenant," the word for one who returns from the dead. The chilled, sullen boy in his father's oversized jacket, addressed across the courts as a revenant, is the Hamlet frame worn as clothing — Hal haunted by and clothed in Himself at once, the inheritance that fits him no better than the coat does.