It is only after learning about human relationships that he begins to suffer “no father had watched my days as a child, no mother had blessed me with smiles and caresses; or if they had, my whole past life was now a blur, a blind void in which I could distinguish nothing. (Chapter 13) As he learns the story of the farmers, he is “deeply impressed” and “learns to admire their virtues.” From this we can see that the intimate home environment not only triggers the monster's pain but also makes him more eager to establish relationships with humans. All his attempts prove to be a failure: when he finally becomes friends with the blind old man, he is chased away by Felix and Agatha only because they are terrified by the monster's experience (Chapter 15); when he saves a drowning girl, his only reward is getting shot by the girl's father (Chapter 16). The desire to build relationships keeps the monster's approach human, yet its appearance continually undermines its attempts. The monster is thus involved in a painful vicious circle: the more he learns about human society, the more eager he is to establish relationships with humans; the more times he tries to do it, the more times he does it