DJ 26 Sadness in the marketplace again

"The picture of human life... even the puritan aspect could attain." in the beginning of this book it is very sad everyone looks gray and dead. In this part everyone still looks dead and gray. It could be the foreshadow that something bad is going to happen. Or it shows their world never changed. Could their sadness be because the Devil (Roger) is in the town and he makes everyone sad and depressed, Or is it because they notice Arthur becoming weak and hurt.