There is a social exchange between these two groups of individuals, where not only a sharing of food is evident, but also a sharing of thoughts. The couple wants to be free in life, but in fact imposes restrictions not only on themselves but also on others. Fangfang asks if the young boy is the man's son, then continues: "And your wife?" (p15) A projection of how things are supposed to happen is found in this conversation, true to the image of perfection and a perfect world with father-son, husband and wife relationships. The man and the boy show that even though their lives are not perfect, this young couple can believe that they have enough love to be happy and content. The little boy has the cage with grasshoppers, which symbolizes the Chinese people, locked in their thoughts and who have no idea of ​​how the world lives. When the man gets up and leaves the conversation they are having, life intervenes and suddenly the control they were trying to have is taken away from them, and "we felt the coolness of the mountain air" . (p15) Their perfect ideology of what perfection is, places a concept of reality on it and changes the whole illusion they live in, as life begins to breathe on top of it..