How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
So they looked at the fire, with that same dull and static amaze which they had brought down from the old fetid caves where knowing began, as though, like death, they had never seen fire before. (13.2)
Violence is a kind of spectacle in this small town.
Quote #8
She had lived such a quiet life, attended so to her own affairs, that she bequeathed to the town in which she had been born and lived and died a foreigner… a kind of heritage of astonishment and outrage, for which, even though she had supplied them at last with an emotional barbecue, a Roman holiday almost, they would never forgive her and let her be dead in peace and quiet. Not that. Peace is not that often. (13.3)
The townspeople of Jefferson seem to resent privacy – those members of the town who embrace it are precisely the ones who are ostracized.