Can you please analyze the following passage and also say how it is enforced later in the novel.

He watched [his mother's] play with great intensity. He'd the notion that there would be something in the story itself to tell him about the way the world was or was becoming but there was not. There was nothing in it at all.

John Grady, as a child, grapples for answers to life's pain. He wonders why his mother not only left the ranch but left for another man. John Grady never finds answers to his pain, as a child or as an adult. Perhaps life, like nature, is indifferent to the pain and intense emotion of humanity.