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I've read analyses of the Dubliners' short story A Painful Case, in which Mr. Duffy's reason to get away from Mrs. Sinico is said to be the fact that she represents a threat to his very orderly and rigid life; but I think a bigger reason is the fact that Mr. Duffy considers himself to be above people and everything he sees as mundane, Mrs. Sinico qualifying when she misinterprets his words on loneliness.
I think this paragraph illustrates Mr. Duffy's rejection of the mundane:
'She asked him why did he not write out his thoughts. For what, he asked her, with careful scorn. To compete with phrasemongers, incapable of thinking consecutively for sixty seconds? To submit himself to the criticisms of an obtuse middle class which entrusted its morality to policemen and its fine arts to impresarios?'
What do you think?
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That was an excuse for his paralysis, I think.
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Agreed, he thinks himself above everybody else, and strangely this results in him being lonely and generally worse off or below everybody else. Look at his disgust when he learns of how she dies
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>>8763280
Like a /lit/'s true patrician.
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>>8763329
mmm. feigning disgust at the suggestion at writing his own ideas, he probably just knows his writing would be shit
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>>8763342
He takes refuge in considering himself above all, to avoid facing the realities that would inevitably appear if he thrusted himself into society.
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>>8763363
no wonder /lit/ loves this one so much eh
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