Ciara's Response to Pages 60-75

The narrator finally gets what he wants in this section: someone to talk to who will actually listen to what he has to say.  I was surprised; the narrator actually has a lot of relevant things to say about relationships, considering his human contact is little to none.  I especially enjoyed his warning to women.  He recognizes that women allow themselves to be enslaved by men by leaving themselves helpless, vulnerable, and at man’s mercy, and he advises Liza to stray from this path. 

Even though the narrator commanded Liza’s attention, he is not satisfied.  He completely forgets about Liza the next day (even though he told her to come to his house) and moves on to pursue his old schoolmates.  He ignores Liza, who gives him attention, and chases the men who despise him and won’t give him the time of the day.  As the saying goes, you always want what you can’t have, and, as a wise man once said, the journey is a hell of a lot more fun than the destination.