![]() ![]() Walt is a braggart who loves to rub salt in Miles wounds about Janine. Walt, known as The Silver Fox, is an aging wannabe playboy who owns the local health club. Janine is Miles'estranged wife who has promised to marry Walt Comeau. Tick, Miles' teenaged daughter, also works at the diner. Whiting, has been uncharacteristically generous with Miles, promising to transfer ownership of the grill to him after her death with the condition that he will continue to manage it until then. David is a recovering alcoholic who sobered up after crashing his truck destroying one of his arms and rendering it useless. Miles has worked at the diner since he was in high school. ![]() Miles Roby, the central contemporary character, is the manager of the Empire Grill with his brother David. ![]() Empire Falls has fallen victim to a cheap international labor market with greed on both sides of the labor-negotiating table. In any event, Empire Falls is a once-prosperous industrial town ruled by four generations of the wealthy Whiting family. It is sometimes difficult to tell if Richard Russo's intent with Empire Falls is to describe the human condition in a story about the fate of a small town in Maine or to describe a small Maine town in a story about the human condition. ![]()
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