The narrator tells us that he doesn't really feel anything at all by men. He's already told us that men don't make our chest throb or our heart beat faster, so he's not worried about that. But then he asks who's been telling him the secret of making a woman "willing" . He wants to know what it is that makes a woman want to be with a man. He figures out that it's just the fact that a man is attractive to her, and she's willing to be attracted to him. The narrator then shows us the other day, when he was told that a dead fish was just a "dead fish" , and that he was just "a dead fish" because he was "rude and vulgar." The narrator shivers and starts to feel something, but he can't figure out what.