Chapter 13: Disarm Through Stretegic Weakness and Vulnerability Summary and Analysis

In this chapter, the author makes an effort to show readers how to make the most of their own weaknesses. Once again, in an increasingly educational tone but still using the third person story-telling method, Greene details exploits and which seductive element they best reveal.

Here the story is about a man who visits a woman and presents the false pretense that he is repenting. The need for the line is caused by the strength of his reputation, of which his target is well aware. The woman he goes after is of excellent reputation and very high status. Not until the end of the chapter does the author also tell us that the real cause for one of his vulnerabilities is another woman whom he has seduced during his...