In this chapter, we learn that the protagonist is a thirty-year-old man who has been living with his parents for the past 30 years. The protagonist's mother, who is a housewife, asks her son why he is in the hospital. The boy explains that he is not in love with anyone, but that his father has known for years that he was in love. The mother tells the boy that she has no worries about him because he is a good boy and that he has not been dumped. She also tells him that he will get married soon as he graduates from college. The young man says that he and his girlfriend will marry as soon as they graduate, but the mother tells him to bring his girlfriend back so she can show her to her parents. She tells the young man that she was dumped but that she is not married because she is a girl and that she will not marry until he is taller and stronger than her son. She then asks the boy if he knows