The narrator is more concerned with status than sympathy.
We can arrive at this answer as follows:
Furthermore, the narrator was already interested in being someone who has the status of winning the girls' hearts, but never having his heart won.
By reading this text, we can see that the narrator is the protagonist of the story and that is why the narration is in the first-person point of view.
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