Summary People's perception changes with age.The author of this story is an old man who,though getting old,wasn't aware of the fact himself and thus found himself constantly bewildered by strange changes in his life.Strange as the changes were to the old man,they are quite natural to the readers who know what happened to the old man.Each change the old man observed denotes one special feature about old age.Summary People’s perception changes with age. The author of this story is an old man who, though getting old, wasn’t aware of the fact himself and thus found himself constantly bewildered by strange changes in his life. Strange as the changes were to the old man, they are quite natural to the readers who know what happened to the old man. Each change the old man observed denotes one special feature about old age