From this point on, Haller will be referred to as Steppenwolf. Steppenwolf's personal records and entries compose the rest of the text. Although the book does not contain formal chapter divisions, it can be divided into three parts: the initial records, "Treatise on the Steppenwolf," and the final records. With the exception of the middle section — "Treatise on the Steppenwolf" — all the text is told in first-person point of view with Steppenwolf serving as narrator.
Steppenwolf begins by describing a typical day for himself. He has spent his day working, reading books and the mail, and exercising. He describes his disgust of middle-class, or bourgeois, society; yet, he also admits that he chooses to live among the middle class, even to the point of lodging in one of their houses. He admires and reviles a vestibule in his building because it embodies all the "cleanliness and respectable domesticity" that he associates with the middle class.
While out walking, Steppenwolf comes across an electric sign: "MAGIC THEATER. ENTRANCE NOT FOR EVERYBODY. FOR MADMEN ONLY!" The door to the theater is locked, so Steppenwolf visits an old tavern. While there, he questions his own existence and thinks about Mozart and Handel. On the way home, Steppenwolf visits the old wall again and encounters a man with a sign: "ANARCHIST EVENING ENTERTAINMENT. MAGIC THEATER. ENTRANCE NOT FOR EVERYBODY." The man gives Steppenwolf a pamphlet entitled, "Treatise on the Steppenwolf. Not for Everybody."
