The chapter opens with a flashback to the childhood of Henry and his family. The family has just come to an end, and Henry wants to know why his parents are no longer together. He tells his father that he wants a divorce. He also tells his stepmother that she is not a wife, and that she will not take his family name and his name will be Henry from now on. Tracy tells him that his father is too young to be a good father and that he is too emotional to follow his father's emotional tone. After the family's divorce, Tracy's mother becomes more and more unreasonable. She changes tutors and nurses, and she is pleased with the fact that no one cares for her son anymore. When he graduates from primary school, he is shocked to find that he has been forced to play the piano all the time.