Letter from Kentucky Part 4

"I drove down to the tractor-trailer plant..."
In this section the narrator is is revisiting old places of note in his hometown. Though he had only worked at the plant twice, it held importance for him because of what it symbolized: failure. The plant was a threat from his father to do better for himself or else, providing a cautionary tale for him in his youth and then is a threat that is realized when he drops out of college. The narrator toils by day in manual labor and spends his time reading the Faerie Queen, an epic poem that was never completed by Edmund Spencer. There is a juxtaposition between the narrator, who is thinking about syllables while his coworker crawls along the floor with a box on his head pretending that he is a Christmas present. I think this illustrates his unrest at this point of his life, his intellectual potential is unmet and he is unchallenged, the passage ending with "One of these days I am going to jump off the Second street bridge."

Something unique: Literary reference
My question: Why the Faerie Queene? Does that have any specific relevance?