At the same time , while the narrator ' s older brother , for whom sensei - a completely nonfunctioning member of society - is incomprehensible , seeks to impart a reasonable portion of his father ' s estate to the narrator for compelling the narrator as the second son to take on the task of managing the family home in the face of the imminent death of their father , this exchange serves to project onto the reader a hint of the hopeless situation surrounding the inheritance of the family home as inscribed by sensei in his will 另一方面，哥哥无法理解丝毫不活跃于社会上的老师，眼见父亲即将不久人世，将管理家里的工作强迫加给身为二儿子的我，作为补偿要分给我相称的遗产，作者将那对答过程呈现在读者面前,如同暗示著老师在遗书上所写的，有关家里遗产继承的绝望状况。
