Summary

Chapter 4, continued. Wolfgang responds positively to the story of the school cleaner, and encourages the bear to keep writing. He says the story reminds him of what his mother used to say about the dangers of ideologies, which leads him to ask the bear about her mother. She changes the subject, and asks to be taken to a department store, which she finds both boring and exhausting. Its heat, meanwhile, leads her to say she wants to move to Canada, which she believes will be much colder and more comfortable, a belief that intensifies when, on a day that she is avoiding writing, she sees a movie about Canada’s north. On her way home from the movie theatre, she is attacked by a group of young men, but is able to fend them off. One...