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<span>“My habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire. Habitual here should mean, recurring or something which keeps happening and this "habitual mood" dampened the intensity of her anger, </span>
The two associated ideas that the author (Carson McCullers) relate from story "Loneliness" is the creation of individual identity and the need of people to belong in something. The story actually talks about how Americans do not like to be lonely or isolated.
Intuition is the ability to see without eyes