On the actual night of the Hsunthein Pwe, Riches Corner finally couldn't perform their play. Four friends of Thadun didn't appear. They refused to play the parts of the Old man, the Sick man, the Dead man, and the Monk. All of them wanted to play the part of the Prince. The only thing that Thadun can do now is waiting for their appearance while the three old men is biting their nails and glancing around nervously. They are very angry, humiliated and think that it is Thadun who will be responsible for let everything happen like this, it is him who is worth being sworn at by the villagers. But we- the readers- recognize that it is the three old man-the leaders- that must be the first persons to be condemned because they didn't do anything to finish the duty that they assumed but only " transfer the responsibility they had to take onto someone else's shoulders". They certainly know Thadun so well, he is the town drunk, meddlesome, just plays a little drums and gongs. They give the important mission - a mission relating to the dignity of the whole village, not the individual- to Thadun not because of their belief in Thadun's capability but getting rid of the burden. They leave alone Thadun with his work except renting the costume and borrowing a monk's robe from a monastery. As for Thadun, he is still better than the three old men in some extent; he anyway has some visionary thinking. Being a member of the community, he accepts to share the heavy responsibility. He knows that Riches Corner is poor "Not every house had a door, not every household owned cattle or oxen", but they can handle to have a good play "Siddhartha's vision of the Four Sign" -" a great, quite instructively religious, too, but not very expensive". Comparing to other villagers, he has a better awareness of life that money is not everything, money doesn't produce true art, money is the essential not the decided thing.
