In this chapter, the narrator tells the audience that he is now three years older than the rest of the characters in the story. He tells them that he has gone to work as a piano player in a music store, and that a friend of the owner of the store has asked him to go to a hotel to be hired as a pianist. The narrator says that his dream is to be a professional pianist. He says that he gave up the piano when he was a child because everyone said he was "charming and hopeless," but that he will learn to play the piano one day.