Davies enters the play as an old tramp, someone that Aston, out of goodwill, has brought home, from a brawl in a café that he has saved the former from. Right here, we already start to see Davies's ugly side, as he constantly mumbles about "All them Greeks and Poles, Blacks", which portrays his racist side. On a deeper level, he shows us some of the ugliest sides of the British working class at that point in time, often getting involved with petty little quarrels that do not aid their completion of their respective jobs at all.
             He appears to the audience as a character without any previous introductions, and neither are we given any background information on him, and he does not help at all but providing little information about his past life, most of which being false anyway. When he was asked as to where he was born, he replies with a sweeping "it's a bit hard, to set your mind back", as if he deliberately did not want Aston, or anyone else but himself to know more about himself. Most importantly, however, and the most easily noticed point, is how he claims that his real name is Jenkins, and Davies is actually a name that he has been using to ease his life "on the road for a few years". It seems to me, that aside from the fact that he is trying to hide something, his character is an empty one, one that is superficial, and desperately needs to relate himself to a higher power, leeching confidence off someone else – first Aston, then Mick.
             While we cannot say for sure that Davies has been the one who has caused all the "trouble" in the house with his arrival, it is true that Aston has his Buddha statue smashed while Davies enters the house, and at the very end of the play, Aston "turns his back to Davies" literally, a sign that he has been given up upon, a symbol which speaks of Davies having used up too many of his chances, and even the calm and good-natured...