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- - - - Mae is constantly reprimanded throughout the story when she doesn't share intimate details of her life such as, her father's illness, and her alone time while on the kayak.
        
        If Mae doesn't share this information, she would be considered selfish because the community isn't also able to experience it
        
        "Ill be watching you watch her" (46).
- - - - Bartleby works as a scrivener, therefore that is the type of work that makes him feel dignified. However, his dignity gets in the way of his work ethic because that is the only type of task he is willing to do at the firm.
        
        The lawyer asks Bartleby to do one simple task aside from being a scribe, and Bartleby responded back with, "I'd prefer not to."
        
        Throughout the story, Bartleby continues to refuse to do the simple tasks asked of him, which ends up angering the lawyer, and the other employees at the firm for picking up his slack. Bartleby's dignity affects his ability to be a good employee, which ultimately leads to his reputation of having poor work ethic.
  - - - His father exemplified his duties of being a dignified butler through stories of past experiences which taught Stevens how to mask his emotions in the workplace. His stories manipulated Stevens into thinking that if he acted the same way he would be successful, just like how his father was
        
        His idea of dignity ultimately caused Stevens to turn any personal relationships he had into professional ones. For example, him and his father barely had a relationship. At work, they would have minimal interactions, and when he passed away, Stevens would not leave his station to give his final goodbyes to his father. At the end of the story, Stevens starts to question his idea of "dignity" when he realizes that his one true love, Miss Kenton married another man because he kept their relationship strictly professional.
- - - - , “I don't know. I’m not trying to feel sorry for myself. I just thought there might be more to it all than this” (Yu).
        
        The narrator says he’s not trying to feel bad for himself because he is making a decent amount of money hourly and is grateful he has a job that allows him to support himself. However, he wishes there was more to his life than what is currently happening. This is what sparks his interest in purchasing the life-loaf.
        
        The narrator is unhappy with his life, but will do nothing to change it because he needs the financial support.
  - - - The narrator becomes a successful business owner of water company, but is simultaneously in love with this girl that he met in his youth. He doesn't act on his love for her until the end, because one of the rules in his book is, "Don't fall in love."
        
        “It dampens the fire in the steam furnace of ambition, robbing of essential propulsion an already fraught upriver journey to the heart of financial success. So, it is worrisome that you, in the late middle of your teenage years, are infatuated with a pretty girl” (35).
        
        The narrator becomes unhappy during the decline of his company, when he divorces his wife, and when all he can still think about is the pretty girl after many years.
        
        At the end of the novel, the narrator realizes that he's been focusing on the fundamentals of what he thought wanted his life to be which encompasses fame, power, and fortune. He realizes that these fundamentals provide temporary happiness. The true fundamentals of life, such as love, have been shunned by the desire to be wealthy.
        
        At the end of the story, the narrator is finally happy when him and the pretty girl cross paths and end up together. This was when he realized that money doesn't buy happiness
- - - - Candace severed her own dreams and happiness by sticking to her routine life and job just to maintain a sense of stability. In reality, the novel depicts that it is just as risky to uphold a toxic regime as it is to pursue one’s desires.
        
        This idea was also seen in the post apocalyptic era when people infected with the Shen Fever caused them to become habitual and repeat the same task over and over again.
- - - - Keiko hears the same sounds of the store routinely, but the repetitiveness of the sound is where Keiko finds her comfort.
      - She wakes up to go to work, eats and drinks the food from the store, and hears the sounds of the store in her sleep. Her entire life purpose is working at the store.
    - - "However, during the time when she didn’t have a job, she felt depressed looking through job advertisements because she felt that she lost what gave her life purpose, and had to give up her daily regime" (147).