How we cite our quotes: Story Number.Paragraph
Quote #7
And you must know how much I wanted to turn and look back at the spot where [Chava] was standing. But no, Tevye is not a woman. Tevye knows how to conduct himself before Satan the Tempter. (6.105)
A cruel bit of compartmentalizing here. Check out how Tevye uses his Biblical language to transform the pleading Chava into the devil (with one fell swoop she goes from female to male, family to stranger, flesh and blood to supernatural, powerless to superpower), as a way of justifying his horrific behavior.
Quote #8
Then Ivan Poperilo the mayor said, rather seriously, "You must understand, Tevel, that we have been arguing over whether we should beat you up or not. Since everywhere else people are getting beaten up, why should we let you get away without it? So the village council has decided we should beat you up. […] We have nothing against you, Tevel. It's true you are," he said, "a Jew, and you are not a bad person. But one thing has nothing to do with the other. We must beat you up. The council decided it, and that's the way it has to be! We will break out your windows. That we must do, because if some official passes through, they must see that you've been punished. Otherwise we might be the ones who get punished." (9.18-21)
The shock of how matter-of-factly the mayor tells Tevye that the whole Gentile part of the village has come to some state-mandated violence to him and his house… well, at least it helps explain why Tevye reacted as he did when Chava decided to marry one of these very same guys.
Quote #9
"You should know, Ivan, my friend, I am leaving," I told [Ivan Poperilo].
He asked me why.
I said, "I am moving to the city. I want to be among Jews. I am no longer a young man, and I might die at any time. […] I will go die among my own. Buy my house and garden from me. I wouldn't sell it to anyone but you." (9.46-50)
With a little bit of excellent reframing, Tevye kind of doesn't tell lies about why he's leaving, but also doesn't reveal that he really, really has to sell immediately. Also, check out how the story sets up this little bit of deception as a well-earned bit of vengeance by first describing how Ivan and the gang came to beat Tevye up and destroy his house earlier.