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This excerpt represents a significant moment in the short story.
It is the last point where Allen and Sister Irene will have any interaction. It is also the last
point where Allen's intense emotional displays will be heard by Sister Irene. There is a pleading
of emotional need that is something that ends up solidifying Sister Irene's decision to withdraw
into her emotionally cloistered and barricaded world. It also represents much about Allen. His
emotional nudity is something that is disarming, especially in light of Sister Irene's emotional
withdrawal. Allen is able to accept his own condition in life as one of emotional pain and
suffering. This is an admission that is too much for Sister Irene. Allen's emotional machine gun
is also pointed at Sister Irene's institutions of the church and academia, realms to which her
retreat is calculated to avoid emotional contact. His attacks on these realms is designed to
bring out the emotional hypocrisy in which Sister Irene lives.