This novel, like all of her subsequent works, was marked by an intense focus on interior emotional states.
The reader is left to form an impression of Jim's interior psychological state from these multiple external points of view.
All depends on the depiction of these interior states, and the writing cannot sustain the burden.
But each dance created a portrait of an interior state.
"It's a claustrophobic, submarinelike world of interior states," he says.
In the religion of the heart, doctrines about God were transposed into interior emotional states.
This performance did not suggest, either, that Bernstein's exteriorization of interior states is acute or particular.
The rulers of the interior states were not unfriendly to the British, but were constantly fighting each other, making trade dangerous.
For the behaviorist, mental states are not interior states on which one can make introspective reports.
Comparisons in such cases are irrelevant, because suffering is an interior state, in which nothing external can help.