The chapter opens up with a narrator having a progressively worse existential crisis on donating his sperm for his friend. He discussed this with his friends who in turn laughed at him saying that he would be fine.  While the opening scene can be construed as comical the narrator has very real concerns about the existential implications of him donating his sperm to his friend to let them have a child. The narrator begins to spiral and does not want to abandon his “obligations” and tries to calm himself before he has to do what he has to. This leads him to imagine his future child trying to explain the whole situation to them. He goes into extensive detail as the child that he is imagining is asking him about the details of their “conception”.

The narrator tells us this story by jumping back and forth from the past and future. His ramblings give us a look into his feelings about becoming a father and how he percives the world. The narrator is a believable and human character, he is a smart person but this also comes with the anxiety that he gets from understanding the world arround him of his consequences. The idea of him having a kid and having to explain the complexcites of him having to go to the “mastubatorium” to make a child. The more he talks to his child the harder the questions become. He is justifying and go through the possible sceineros that he is going to have to face when he decides to go through with this. While he makes all these assumtions for the future he hopes that once he does go through with it, his sperm turns out to be worthless because of all these doubts and axiety. The narrator is riddle with these thoughts and the different possiblities that are coming this way so like any person would he jumps to a time that is far more comfortable for him.

The narrator finishes his narrative with explaining that he finally goes through with giving his sample. The narrator is a believable person for us to follow throughout the story showing us his insecurities on full display about becoming a father. We learn more about his quirks like thinking about everything and about how he feels.This chapter started off great and is exploring the narrator and the rules about the story telling of this novel. Time is a very improtant part of the novel.