When the scene opens, we are introduced to the narrator's son, who is studying with his father. The narrator asks his father why his father is so worn out, and his father replies that he is tired of studying and that his father cares more about him than he cares about anything else in the world. When the narrator tries to get the father to open the door, the father tells him that he has come all the way to tell his son to his face. The father then tells the narrator that he ran away from home because he was too upset to stand in front of his father