How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Section.Page)
Quote #7
He believed he smelt as badly as Philoctete/from the rotting loneliness that drew every glance/away from him, as stale as a drying fishnet. (XXII.i.116)
After Helen leaves, Achille isolates himself from the other fishermen. His depression demands solitude, but he also feels that he is somehow a marked man now, and that others won't want to be near him. The language here is of decay and disrepair, as though Achille is now both broken and discarded.
Quote #8
Achille saw the ghost/of his father's face shoot up at the end of the line./Achille stared in pious horror at the bound canvas/and could not look away, or loosen its burial knots./Then, for the first time, he asked himself who he was. (XXIV.11.130)
In the throes of sunstroke, Achille hallucinates that the floating, white canvas is really his dead father trussed up for burial. The vision makes him question his identity and sends him on a trip to Africa in order to find his true name.
Quote #9
He foresaw their future. He knew nothing could change it./The tinkle from coins of the river, the tinkle of irons./The son's grief was the father's, the father's his son's. (XXVII.ii.146)
Achille desperately plans to ambush the raiders who have taken his people away from the village in chains in order to sell them into slavery. While he feels that he can save them from all the suffering to come, there's a sense of inevitably about the situation that overrides Achille's determination.