So he won't have to beg and be beholden".  
He has "nothing to look forward to with hope," and before encountering him, one character had been to Rowe's.  He wants to team up again with Harold Wilson, with whom he had bickered four years ago, and though his brother is "rich, a somebody - director in the bank", he only wants to earn enough money "to at least buy tobacco with/So he won't have to beg and be beholden".  This character has come to help Warren "ditch the meadow", though a discussion of the meaning of home follows from Mary 's earlier claim that this man "has come home to die".  For 10 points, name this man with given name Silas, whose death is the title action of a Robert Frost poem.
He has "nothing to look forward to with hope," and before encountering him, one character had been to Rowe's.  
The {Hired Man} (accept {Silas} before mentioned)