The next day, the two of them go for a walk. The narrator says that he's depressed because of his job. He's also worried about his mom, who wants him to be successful and earn as much as he can. He doesn't want her to think that he has a crush on her, because she thinks that when a man is successful, his life is counted as valuable. He says that women need more than that: men need to be more emotionally successful, and women need to have a "mutual emotional value" .