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Farrington thinks this to himself just after getting told off by his boss, Mr. Alleyne, for slacking on his work and not meeting an important deadline. This passage contains the first sign of Farrington’s intense anger and resentment, which afflicts him like a “spasm” that “grips his throat,” suggesting that he desperately wants to say something but is almost choked back from saying so. This pent-up anger, symbolically located in the throat, quickly subsides into a “sharp sensation of thirst,” a euphemistic way to say that Farrington wants to deal with his anger by getting drunk. Indeed, throughout the story…