The Monkey's Love

The monkey delivers a kind of manifesto on the importance of love. He says it's this indispensable l for life, without which our hearts would become a cold and barren waste land. The narrator does seem that typical raymond chandler type protagonist who'se single in a lone wolf. If the narrator wanted to find a girl and settle down and get married, he probably could quite easily, except he's holding himself back. Who knows? This is thiss i think, the mystery at the heart of this story, how do these two characters, monkey and man, link up?