Nonetheless, my confidence is returning, and a sense of my true history and worth.
-- Narrator (Pages 1105 - 1108)

Importance: The narrator's assertions about his state of being in the narrative present instigate the first narrative flashback. After addressing the reader directly, the narrator begins to explain who he is and what he has experienced of late. His narrative style and tone convey his desperation to prove that he is a worthy person deserving of others' attention and validation. This moment also begets the narrator's subsequent descriptions of his relationship with Scranton.

At first my wife resented this, but soon she and my mother teamed up against me.
-- Narrator (Pages 1105 - 1108)

Importance: The narrator's regard for his wife and mother reveals his feelings of displacement and entrapment. He not only struggles to prove himself in the work sphere, but feels rejected by the people with whom he lives. He does not endear himself to his wife and mother, and rather...