A person in chronic grief tends to focus his eyes down in the direction of the floor a good bit. In the lower ranges of grief, his attention will be fairly fixed, as in apathy. Here we have … pleas for pity, his desperate efforts to win support by tears. This takes place where one recognizes his loss and failure, as in the death of somebody he loved and tried to help. The person in grief talks dolefully [sadly] and hopelessly in terms of bad things which are happening and will happen and for which there is no remedy. He listens only to such conversation. He cannot be heartened or cheered up.