... . Duffy a shell fueled by habit and repetition. Even after realizing the costly errors of turning away from Mrs. Sinico, his only emotional outlet, he is unable to react to his epiphany and quietly relegates himself to a life of loneliness and solitude. The next example of social paralysis in Dubliners appears in the vignette "A Little Cloud," a story in which family is the ... Mr. Duffy's in "A Painful Case." Although the circumstances differ, the end result is the same. Both men trapped in conscious self-destruction, yet both resigning to the social standards that define their lives an...

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