Gandhi speaks plainly about how he felt about his own marriage and child marriage as a whole. He says he wishes he did not have to write the chapter and calls the writing of it a "painful duty." He even writes that he pities himself as he looks back on the event and refers to those who are married later in life as having "escaped," suggesting that marriage at such a young age is like imprisonment. He refers to the marriage as "preposterously early," a word choice that suggests not only that it is unreasonable but absurd as well.
