This chapter opens with a description of a brand new car. The narrator tells us that the car smells "leather" and that it is "clean inside the car" . He also says that he has bought a store in the town where the car is being sold. He tells the narrator that he is from a good family and that the son of the car's owner is a "good kid" , but that now it is harder for him to make a living because he has three kids back at home and their tuition costs are "a huge burden" on him. He complains about the smell of a cigarette in the car and how he has to go to work every day and smoke a cigarette every time he goes to sleep. He says that sometimes he just wants to talk to his wife and children and that he can't spend his money on a nicer cigarette. He wonders if his son burned the car to his father after he died. He doesn't notice that his son is not alive, and he wonders if the ghost of his father is "disappearing"