Chapter 6 Summary

The narration switches back to Minke in this chapter. Minke receives an invitation from Robert Mellema to visit in his room, and suspiciously accepts. Their conversation begins awkwardly and quickly goes downhill, with Robert expressing hatred and jealousy towards Minke. Annelies relieves Minke when she comes to get him away from Robert. Nyai joins them and shows Minke an article that he has actually written under a pen name. Nyai does not yet know that he wrote it, but notices that the person in the article resembles herself. Minke then admits his authorship to her, and Nyai praises him for his writing and encourages him to keep doing it, rather than getting angry that he based it on her. She even urges him to write about Robert, because he would make an interesting tragic character. Minke reflects on his desires to write, and...