Vulpi talks about how the hunger artist is help to no one and that his work is useless. Also that because he acts in hunger alone, he understand his motives alone. He talks about how when the hunger artist is starving himself prevents him from partaking in life and with others. Also that the he said "For the hunger artist success was fatal. The pride and the egotistical satisfaction that he felt from his accomplishment prevented the hunger artist from seeking communion with others." (Vulpi 377) Here he is trying to explain that because of his pride and the satisfaction for his ego he never became communion with people. Which means that he never shared or exchanged intimate thoughts and feelings with other people. But at the end the hunger artist