The story opens with a conversation between a thirty-year-old man and his brother. The man asks his brother why he likes to resign from his job. The brother replies that his father has talked to him the day before about moving him to a more "open and inclusive environment." The man says that he has made up his mind to leave the company. He tells his brother that he can't live without his father's control and that he cannot get him to approve of his choice to leave. He says that if he dares return in disgrace, he'll have his brother clean the toilet. The brothers response is that he's already hit his brother so hard that it's hard to believe that he would do such a thing. The men agree that the man's decision to leave is selfish, but they also agree that he took a long day to do so. The