Part 1, Chapter 15 Summary

The narrator is now in a bar at the local hotel. A man from New York talks to him about his problems, tearing up an airline ticket and talking about how he can never go home. The narrator and this man talk about fishing, but the man does not believe the narrator when he says there are no fish in the river. Two other men come in and join the conversation, along with a barmaid the airplane man claims to know. The barmaid says he must be confusing her with her sister. The narrator is becoming drunk and he finds himself attracted to the barmaid.

Part 1, Chapter 15 Analysis

The narrator meets a new group of people, including a man he refers to as Airplane Man because he tears up his airline ticket, claiming he can never go home again. This meeting...