Summary

Ichiro wakes up the next morning feeling just as bad as when he was in prison, feeling as though he has created his own prison through his poor decisions. His father tries to help him to feel better. His mother talks about the friend’s son who died in the war, saying the mother of the young man was to blame “because she did not conduct herself as a Japanese.” She tells Ichiro if he were to join the army, she would consider herself to be dead. Ichiro becomes so angry with her he grabs her, and when his father tries to stop him, he hits his father and knocks him into the wall. He apologizes and his father forgives him.

Ichiro goes to visit his friend Freddie, who was released from prison about a month earlier. Freddie tries to pretend things are alright, but finally...