maggie follows the boy past grimy walls with holes and peeling wall paper , past a sitting room with an analog television and neglected spider and ivy plants hanging from macram rope above a mottled couch with a faded lime green floral pattern , a knitted afghan , purple , red , and blue , is flung over it and propped in the corner are two soiled bed pillows ; adjacent to the couch is a worn brown recliner with batting bursting out of the arms , a half-emptied bottle of jack daniels on the coffee table and magazines donning nude women .