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Gabriel felt humiliated by the failure of his irony and by the evocation of this figure from the dead, a boy in the gasworks. While he had been full of memories of their secret life together, full of tenderness and joy and desire, she had been comparing him in her mind with another. A shameful consciousness of his own person assailed him. He saw himself as a ludicrous figure, acting as a pennyboy for his aunts, a nervous, well-meaning sentimentalist, orating to vulgarians and idealising his own clownish lusts, the pitiable fatuous fellow he had caught a glimpse of in the mirror. Instinctively he turned his back more to the light lest she might see the shame that burned upon his forehead 去书内
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    This paragraph marks Gabriel’s sudden emotional collapse. He feels deeply humiliated when realizing Gretta’s thoughts belong to another man from her past. His self‑criticism reveals his vanity, insecurity and self‑deception, seeing himself as a ridiculous, sentimental fool. The sharp contrast between his earlier passionate longing and present bitter shame shows the breakdown of his romantic illusion, exposing the emptiness of his inner world and the cold reality of their marriage.

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