Responses

when an author throws an idea explicitly to the reader is because that idea is not the main point. Here doesn't matter that he has an inferiority complex, what's more he even recognizes it. The point is to show that his own values about himself are poor, because society and loneliness can harm a person that much even when that person was on the other side. So I think the author made it really good, you just didn't understand it that way or simply doesn't like her style.
cute but over explained...