How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
Cousin Adolphe has no eyes: his swollen, retracted eyelids open only on a little of the whites. He smiles sleepily; from time to time he snorts, yelps and writhes feebly, like a dreaming dog. (7.8)
Like almost everyone he meets, Antoine also thinks that the man running a bar named Adolphe is weary. The whole world is weary, Antoine. Tell us something we don't know. Imagine how amazing it would be if he suddenly said, "So and so is happy without question. The happiest person ever." Not gonna happen, though.
Quote #5
His blue cotton shirt stands out joyfully against a chocolate-coloured wall. That too brings on the Nausea […] I feel it out there in the wall, in the suspenders, everywhere around me. (7.9)
It's not just people's appearances that can stop Antoine dead in his tracks, but also the appearances of everyday objects like suspenders or wallpaper. When two things seem to clash, like the color of suspenders and the wall behind them, Antoine can feel his sense of "Nausea" start to overwhelm him. He begins to realize that underneath his regular ideas about the world lies a realm of brute, silent existence that doesn't care at all about human concepts or human forms of meaning. It just is, and it doesn't care.
Quote #6
She can stroll along the Rue Tournebride as much as she likes, no one will mistake her for a lady; she is betrayed by the cynical sparkle of her eyes, by her sophisticated look. (12.22)
In keeping with his keen eye, Antoine spots a young woman walking in a crowd of rich people, but he can tell from the cynical look in her eyes that she is not an upper class "lady." Her cynical look comes from a lifetime of trying to survive, of worrying about money and always putting practical things first.