Where do chapter 2 and following chapters take place? What is this place's feeling to the state of fiction? What inferences, then, can be drawn about the city?

Chapter Two takes place in London, England.

Fiction in books? We see more evidence of institutionalized sexism; all the books in the library about women are by men, and frequently men with a chip on their shoulder. The narrator quickly identifies this chip as defensiveness. Men, used to feeling superior at the expense of women, grow angry and fearful when their superiority is threatened. Hence, they cut down the women in an attempt to enlarge themselves, as the narrator describes in the "looking-glass" metaphor.

Inferences about the city in regard to?