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,哥哥無法理解絲毫不活躍于社會上的老師,眼見父親即將不久人世,將管理家里的工作強迫加給身為二兒子的我,作為補償要分給我相稱的遺產(chǎn),作者將那對答過程呈現(xiàn)在讀者面前,如同暗示著老師在遺書上所寫的,有關(guān)家里遺產(chǎn)繼承的絕望狀況。