The Prisoner's Bitterness and Disillusionment

Only slowly could these men be guided back to the commonplace truth that no one has the right to do wrong, not even if wrong has been done to them. Bitterness was caused by a number of things he came up against in his former home town. A man who for years had thought he had reached the absolute limit of all possible suffering now found that suffering has no limits. The experience of disillusionment is different. Here it was not one's fellow man, whose suprficiality and lack of feeling were so disgusting that one finally felt like creeping into a hole and neither hearing nor seeing human beings any more.