

I came from that world myself, and I wanted to leave it behind. The narrator listened to Eugene and thought, "I knew the world Eugene came from. His told about his success in studies and sport, about the future life in the school where they were going to study. He put me in mind of a seal."Įugene sat into a coach where the narrator sat and started talking.

As the narrator said, "His head was too big for his lanky body, and his skin was oily.

The narrator noticed his future classmate, Eugene in the train on the way to the school when he struck between doors with his two enormous suitcases. In the short story "Smokers" by Tobias Wolff, the narrator told about his experience of studying in a school, Choate, and living in a dormitory.
