In this chapter, the narrator reflects on his life. He looks down upon the kind of person who is always "pure and timid" and "reliant on men" . He compares this person to the protagonist of the previous chapter, who "always pretended to be pure, and timid, and relied on men." The protagonist, however, is different from the other protagonist because he is an original work of art. He has written every word of his amateur drama in person, and he has won the competition because he wrote it in person.