How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
"For everything nice I ever done for you, I just get kicked around. I want to be treated nice by somebody before I die. You learnt everything, Ignatius, except how to be a human being."
"It's not your fate to be well treated," Ignatius cried. "You're an overt masochist. Nice treatment will confuse and destroy you." (13.198)
Mrs. Reilly tells Ignatius that he never learned how to be kind. Ignatius responds with mean-spirited intellectual gobbledygook, which seems to more or less prove Mrs. Reilly's point.