How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Book.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
As for his look, it was a natural cheerfulness striving against depression from without, and not quite succeeding. (2.6.8)
We love how this description neatly contrasts Eustacia and Clym – they are really opposites here since Clym is inwardly cheerful and Eustacia is inwardly, well, not.
Quote #5
"What depressed you?"
"Life."
"That's a cause of depression a good many have to put up with." (2.6.61-63)
Usually the narrator hogs all the humorous asides and pithy quotes, but Clym gets a good one in here as he makes fun of the ever-depressed Eustacia. She's like Eeyore.
Quote #6
"Well, as my views changed my course became very depressing. I found that I was trying to be like people who had hardly anything in common with myself. I was endeavoring to put off one sort of life for another sort of life, which was not better than the life I had known before. It was simply different." (3.1.23)
Clym raises an interesting thematic idea – that of changing out lives. Themes of trying to find a new life or trying to escape the one you currently have run throughout this book. It's also very interesting that, structurally, we never get to actually see Clym's quarter-life crisis in Paris – we just hear about it second-hand.