The chapter opens with the narrator returning home from work. He tells his mother that he is tired of his part-time job and wishes he could go back to work full time. He asks his mother if there is anywhere in the world that will lend him money to rebuild his company. She says that there is no place like home, and that they have to look for another place to borrow money. The narrator tells his father that he feels like he has the strength to keep working harder. He says that he will go out for a while and then return to his job.