How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
No support, [Rick] informed himself. Most androids I've known have more vitality and desire to live than my wife. She has nothing to give me. (8.89)
Rick feels isolation creeping into his life as he begins to disconnect from his wife. You could argue that Rick's true antagonist is not Roy or Rachael but his own feeling of isolation from others. In other words, himself. (Hint: try thinking about your wife in terms of what she needs and what you can give her—that might be a start.)
Quote #5
"All our vidphone lines here are trapped. They recirculate the call to other offices within the building. This is a homeostatic enterprise we're operating here, Deckard. We're a closed loop, cut off from the rest of San Francisco. We know about them but they don't know about us." (11.20)
How isolated is the future city of San Francisco? It's isolated enough for an entire android police station to operate without ever coming into contact with the real San Francisco Police Department. Honestly, you'd think they'd accidently get the other's mail or something.
Quote #6
The creature stood on a bridge and no one else was present; the creature screamed in isolation. Cut off by—or despite—its outcry.
"He did a woodcut of this," Rick said, reading the card tacked below the painting.
"I think," Phil Resch said, "that this is how an andy must feel." (12.10-12)
The novel uses Edvard Munch's The Scream as a visual representation for isolation. And check it out—Phil Resch is actually imagining how an andy might feel. Maybe that's the function of art: to help us empathize.