The protagonist pouts constantly and came across more sulky teenager than troubled soul. John O'Hara has written a joyless book about a sulky assignation. Pinsent also writes of Wittgenstein being "absolutely sulky and snappish" at times, as well. Brooding, sulky, and sometimes hostile, Lana views the role of healer to be a burden. Horses are hitched to a very lightweight two-wheeled cart, called a sulky. They usually pull a two-wheeled cart called a sulky, or spider, occupied by a driver. Horses can race in harness, pulling a very lightweight one-person cart known as a sulky. When Matthew arrives in August 1997, he starts out as a sulky teenager. Author Tim Riley calls it "willfully sulky". Sulky racing is popular in the region. A senior diplomat described the Soviet position as "sulky about the whole affair". Nick, however, wants to race in the finals, with a sulky donated by Mr. Templeton. He crashes and the sulky is damaged. Wattles resolved this problem by designing a wider sulky. For the locality in Australia, see Sulky, Victoria.