Text analysis. Fragment "At home" from novel by Stan Barstow

This is the fragment of novel by Stan Barstow “A Kind of Loving”. It is about love. The subject of this fragment is the main character’s evening at home after a failed date with his girlfriend Ingrid. The fragment is taken from fiction prose – a novel. It functions as an entertaining material.
As this is an adapted fragment of novel, there’s no strict introductory material, but the first paragraph could be considered as one. It describes the main character’s coming home and introduces reader with some personal touches of him. In the body of the text author has described family’s evening at home.…