As you said above, the word "bob" means fencing and you want to know how this can have a double meaning related to homophobes.
This is what I see the 2 meanings as:
1. fencing, as in taking out your fencing sword
2. take out your penis, as penis would be another word for sword in plays/books such as the one you're reading - this would be relating to gays if the convo was btwn 2 men
<span>I select character John Proctor who had an affair with Abigail and his marriage is at stake. John cannot decide whether or not he should confess to the affair to save his wife. John decides to die an innocent man than to live guilty of adultery and witchcraft.</span>
Answer:
Because the novelists or narrator, has been fighting and haunted by bad dreams for many years and he has seen many people die over the years. As a results the dead are never far from his memory. These descriptions are intended to show how being surrounded by the unburied bodies affects him emotionally and psychologically.
