There's tongue-in-cheek humor here, with Giorgio furious at the people because he loves humanity. But this encapsulates the nature of the dream-ideal, in which dedication to even a positive ideal is made at the expense of other human beings. In this chapter we have already seen that Giorio's idealism has taken his attention away from his daughters, and dragged his wife to a climate fatally ill-suited to her. The flawed, tragic, stubborn idealism of the humble innkeeper serves as a microcosm for the mighty dream-ideals of Gould and Holroyd to come.