There's Craig, the hardware man and former football star.
Carol's father, the "Hardware Man," sexually assaults Rory repeatedly in the bathroom of his shop.
When she has to use the bathroom, the hardware man insists on helping.
While her mother works, Rory Dawn is left with the Hardware Man.
Many nights Rory squeezes "into the crack that is growing between the mattress and the wall" while the Hardware Man attacks Carol on the same bed.
Mr. Shore's wife took a few personal effects and Mr. Shore, a hardware man looking to make a new career, took a watch.
Displaying a hardware man's distrust of the newfangled, Mr. Borruso said he cared more about the center's opening as soon as possible, and less about its being a beacon of environmentalism.
The Drapier makes sure that Wood appears to be the primary target, which, when combined with only an indirect attack upon people at the top of the British political system, reassured the people of Ireland that they could rebel against an "insignificant hardware man".
In June, when three firefighters from Queens died in a hardware store fire, men from their companies were selected to be pallbearers, as is tradition.
His stories take place mostly in Scotland, in flats "high up on the third floor of a tenement block in the middle of Dundee" or in the back room of a hardware shop, where men drink "sweet, milky coffee" while waiting for the results of the races.
Like Shinya Tsukamoto's 1989 Japanese film "Tetsuo, the Iron Man," "Hardware" seems both to dread and relish the prospect of human flesh morphing into metal.
