[Music] in part one chapter two of Don Quixote valued Don Quixote leaves home on his trusty steed before remembering that he's not actually a real Knight he vows to have himself properly dubbed by the first night he sees he stops for the evening at an inn which he thinks is a castle to prostitutes whom he believes to be maidens help him out of his armor they can't remove his neck piece or helmet so he leaves them on the helmets visor doesn't stay up on its own so someone else has to feed him while he holds
it up oblivious to the laughter surrounding him Don Quixote believes he's being peppered in a luxurious castle in part 1 chapter 3 Don Quixote beseeches the innkeeper whom he has decided is also a knight to grant him knighthood the next morning the innkeeper confused but willing to have some fun agrees Don Quixote intends to stay up all night keeping watch over his armor which he lays atop a trough a visiting mule driver tries to move the armor Don Quixote knocks out the mule driver and cracks the skull of one of the mule drivers friends the
mule drivers other friends start throwing stones and the innkeeper decides it's time to start the ceremony it's brief and Don Quixote and Rocinante back on the road chapters 2 & 3 show the extent of Don Quixote's insanity he sees castles where others see rundown ends he believes sly innkeepers are valiant Knights Don Quixote believes in his fantasy so wholeheartedly that it is impossible for him to acknowledge any other reality everyone thinks he's crazy even the narrator who says in Chapter two that Don Quixote roads so slowly under the hot Sun that it would have melted
his brains if he'd had anything the narrator deliberately shai's away from presenting the titular hero as a charity case to be pitied instead positioning him as a quirky character who isn't bothered by the laughter trailing him wherever he goes the laughter never really lasts long anyway because it turns out that the Don is actually a pretty darn good night this is unsettling to the innkeeper and the reader who both start to question if Don Quixote is indeed insane or just playing a strange joke
