Pgs 186-189

Fischer began to completely engulf himself in his academic work at the University of Chicago. He loved Chicago because it allowed him to be the free-thinking intellectual he saw himself as. Although initially he struggled with the monotony of teaching classes and lecturing he soon found a teaching method that suited him perfectly. He turned his classes into question and answer sessions in which the questions stayed the same but the answers were always changing. This allowed his students and himself to engage intellectually and he found that his students loved it as much as he did. However, as he began loving his life in Chicago more and more, his wife Mimi hated it more and more. She was unhappy with their life in Chicago and the direction of his career. Fischer even attempted setting up their relationship as a business partnership, which did not work. Mimi eventually took the kids and moved back to Boston to be with her family.