Chapter 9 Summary

In Chapter 9, every day Slakes sees two people he recognizes. He tries to integrate with humanity and realize people are not all out to get him. He wonders about the people he never sees again. One day, he sells a paper to the cleaning lady. An elderly man asks a well-dressed man if he has seen a man with a cane. The well-dressed man says no. The elderly man says he is going to do something for him. The old man grabs the well-dressed man's shoulders and declares the rheumatism of his shoulders gone. He spins the well-dressed man around and says the same of his stomach. The well-dressed man says that is enough and the old man leaves. The well-dressed man says to Slake and the cleaning lady the old man was after his wallet.

Slake sees a man fall out onto...