How we cite our quotes: (Story.Paragraph)
Quote #4
Little Chandler felt his cheeks suffused with shame and he stood back out of the lamplight. He listened while the paroxysm of the child's sobbing grew less and less; and tears of remorse started to his eyes. (A Little Cloud.126)
And shame in the presence of a crying baby is enough to make anyone shut down.
Quote #5
Mr James Duffy lived in Chapelizod because he wished to live as far as possible from the city of which he was a citizen and because he found all the other suburbs of Dublin mean, modern, and pretentious. (A Painful Case.1)
Self-enforced isolation: another way of saying "misanthrope." Honestly, Duffy seems doomed from the beginning. His isolation feels like a personal choice, as if he's ruined his own chance at happiness.
Quote #6
He had neither companions nor friends, church nor creed. He lived his spiritual life without any communion with others, visiting his relatives at Christmas and escorting them to the cemetery when they died. (A Painful Case.4)
Maybe he should meet Eleanor Rigby? They'd make a good pair.