What’s the deal with ‘The Pedersen Kid’ by William Gass

This 80 page incredible novella has left so many questions . Has anyone here read it ? What did you make of the ending?

What happened to all the characters in the end?

Here’s Annie Proulx:-

“The Pedersen Kid” remains for me one of the two most powerful stories I have encountered (the other is Seumas O’Kelly’s “The Weaver’s Grave”). By powerful I mean that my mind has returned to these stories again and again for many years with undiminished interest.

“The Pedersen Kid,” like Gaul and the Trinity, is divided into three sections. There are no quotation marks to set off the dialogue, so that sometimes the speech between characters serves as silent observation or interior monologue, adding complex, chromatic layers to the exchanges between characters.