Bailey
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"Hush!" Bailey yelled. "Hush! Everybody shut up and let me handle this!" He was squatting in the position of a runner about to sprint forward but he didn't move. (91)
Bailey tries to reassert his authority, telling everyone else (particularly the grandmother) to "shut up" and let him deal with The Misfit. Ironically, the dad seems ill-equipped to deal with the situation. Not only is he panicking, but the narrator also makes it particularly hard to take him seriously because of the contrast drawn in that second sentence: it looks from his body posture like he's about to do something, but he's not doing anything. Bailey's all show.