Buddy Willard occupies a significant part in Greenwood's life even though he appeared minimally as a character in the story. Esther also has so many preoccupations about him. For Esther’s perception, Buddy is a symbol of her deflated expectations, yet the definite reason for such disappointment will only be reveal in the latter part of the story. Esther was greatly disappointed to the fact that he considers him as a wonderful boy she had ever seen. Thus he positioned him in a way he may also be degraded. Faults whether real or not is exaggerated by Esther. In this chapter, Esther repress the part of their intellect since Buddy Willard do not appreciate the literary and artistic mind of Esther as the poem closed it with a "piece of dust".
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