He says that he wanted this to go into the G&M so we'd understand his story.  I don't see any mitigating circumstances in this story that makes the reader sympathetic.  Does he believe that his 'depression' is the trigger that makes us care for him?  His depression is self inflicted.  I'd no more be sympathetic to his depression than for a burglar who is upset because he was caught.  Beaver doesn't care about his victims - he justs wants us to "understand".

Well I don't.