In this chapter, we learn that the father of the protagonist is dead, and that his wife has taken him in as her model. The protagonist tells us that he never knew what his father looked like until he and his mother moved back to the United States. He says that his mother is a tough cookie, and she hopes that she can become a famous person, or people will look down on her. She took the protagonist as her "model" and asked him to learn everything she could from him. When he came out of the hospital, the protagonist was overjoyed, and says that it was not his fault that his father was dead. He tells the protagonist that he has to go see him at the medical school, and the protagonist says that he will take care of him.