How we cite our quotes: (Volume.Chapter.Paragraph.)
Quote #4
"The family on the first floor rear do not bother to pay their rent, and the children cannot go to school for lack of clothes. Their father has a charge account at a corner speak-easy." (1.12.11)
Dominique's scathing run-down of various people living in a tenement is pretty controversial. She doesn't glamorize or sugarcoat the poverty or the social ills (like alcoholism) going on. But it's her tone of contempt and judgment that is really worth noting here. Dominique seems to have as much love for humanity as Scrooge or the Grinch does.
Quote #5
"Because on your side you have reason—oh, I know, it's something no one really wants to have on his side—and against you, you have just a vague, fat, blind inertia." (1.13.112)
The image of "inertia" here, with descriptive words that make it sound like an actual body, provides a good image of how society is viewed in this novel. And it's not very pretty.
Quote #6
"That is not an insult to you, Keating. Try to understand that. You're not the worst of the world. You're its best. That's what's frightening." (2.5.100)
This really is an insult. Dominique inverts worst and best here to emphasize just how much she dislikes the world as it is, and how much she dislikes Keating by extension.