Peter Dyson is the father of Ricky and the husband of Sophie. Dyson returns from Perth to his hometown of Angelus for a fresh start after Sophie dies by suicide, and he endures a difficult period of heavy drinking and self-destructive behavior. Raised by a single mother, Dyson was very close with the Keenan family. While he had a powerful, often torrid and difficult relationship with Fay Keenan, Marjorie and Don treated him like an adopted son. As a teenager, Dyson got Fay pregnant, and his mother paid for an abortion, which they never told Fay’s parents about. Dyson worries that he married Sophie because she was in many ways the opposite of Fay—stable and predictable, at least until her postpartum depression set in. Dyson struggles to focus on being a good father to Ricky, even at the cost of rejecting Fay. While he cares for her and wants to support her, he feels that beginning a relationship will only be destructive for Ricky.
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On all fours, dripping and panting until he began to sob and cause people to step around him in consternation, he knew that things were wrong, that he had to make a change. Everything here was tainted now. Continuing to pretend otherwise was simply and finally beyond him.
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Peter Dyson Quotes in The Turning
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On all fours, dripping and panting until he began to sob and cause people to step around him in consternation, he knew that things were wrong, that he had to make a change. Everything here was tainted now. Continuing to pretend otherwise was simply and finally beyond him.
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