"He has neither companions nor friends, church nor creed". His only indulgence was an occasional Mozart opera. He has lunch every day at the same pub and he dines in an eatery "where he feels himself safe from the society of Dublin's gilded youth". He hates anything which "betokened physical or mental disorder.his face, which carried the tale of his years, was the brown of the Dublin Streets". He is a clerk in a private bank, lives in a rooming house where he has bought all the furniture in his room and everything is precisely arranged. He details the layers of guilt the church has produced in the minds of even people with no religion like the main character in "A Painful Case", Mr. I am currently reading a very good book that is helping me understand the Irish short story, Occasions of Sin-Sex and Society in Modern Ireland by Diarmaid Ferriter in which he explains the very emotionally reticent nature of the Irish in regards to those of the opposite sex.
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