The story doesn’t reveal the narrator’s name until the very end (Gritzvi), perhaps to emphasize the point from the first story at the train station about how “I” can be a way of concealing things, like a name. Also like the first story, this one ends with the narrator’s life potentially in danger due to forces he doesn’t understand. The constant threat of death at the end of these stories suggests that it is a nearly universal human fear the resists easy answers—just as this story doesn’t provide closer at the ending.